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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
YESTERDAYS', by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poet's Biography
First Line: Gone! And they return no more
Last Line: Nor tell in a poet's rhyme
Subject(s): Death
First Line: Gone! And they return no more
Last Line: Nor tell in a poet's rhyme
Subject(s): Death
Gone! and they return no more,
But they leave a light in the heart;
The murmur of waves that kiss a shore
Will never, I know, depart.
Gone! yet with us still they stay,
And their memories throb through life;
The music that hushes or stirs to-day,
Is toned by their calm or strife.
Gone! and yet they never go!
We kneel at the shrine of time:
'Tis a mystery no man may know,
Nor tell in a poet's rhyme.
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CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY
HOW THE MIRROR LOOKS THIS MORNING by HICOK. BOB
NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND
SENTINEL SONGS: 1 by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN