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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE YOUNG MOTHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poet's Biography
First Line: In dreadful times of death and war
Last Line: With frankincense and myrrh.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Comfort; Mothers; War; World War I; First World War
First Line: In dreadful times of death and war
Last Line: With frankincense and myrrh.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Comfort; Mothers; War; World War I; First World War
IN dreadful times of death and war
She sails, a little fixèd star,
Or like a little ship she glides
With gentle winds and favouring tides
Up to the harbour bar.
Wrapped in all mild tranquillities
She muses: inward gaze her eyes;
And lest she slip upon a stone
Gabriel or some shining one
Guards her high destinies.
No rumour reaches her at all,
Beyond her safe encompassing wall,
Of a mad world that slays and slays:
She sees a little one that plays
And sleeps at evenfall.
She is the House of Life: and where
She goes the angels bend to her.
A little secret garden-close,
Sweet with the lily and the rose,
With frankincense and myrrh.
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