Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ENSHRINED (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography First Line: Come quickly in and close the door Last Line: Untouched of human tenderness. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy | ||||||||
COME quickly in and close the door, For none hath entered here before, The secret chamber set apart Within the cloister of the heart. Tread softly! 'T is the Holy Place Where memory meets face to face A sacred sorrow, felt of yore, But sleeping now forevermore. It cannot die; for nought of pain, Its fleeting vesture, doth remain: Behold upon the shrouded eye The seal of immortality! Love would not wake it, nor efface Of anguish one abiding trace, Since e'en the calm of heaven were less, Untouched of human tenderness. | Other Poems of Interest...SYMPATHY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON WORDS TO JOE CERAVOLO by RON PADGETT SYMPATHY (2) by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR SYMPATHY by HENRY DAVID THOREAU MISPLACED SYMPATHY by CHARLES FOLLEN ADAMS QUATORZAINS: 10. TO POESY by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |
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