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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WELCOME, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poet's Biography
First Line: We will not banish them as they were lost
Last Line: Like a sad ghost dreaming that he is dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement
First Line: We will not banish them as they were lost
Last Line: Like a sad ghost dreaming that he is dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement
WE will not banish them as they were lost,
But in our daily talk their names be most,
Nor from our laughter be they shut away.
We shall tell over fond old stories of them
When they were little and we leant above them
Guarding from danger as God's angels may.
They come no more as they were used to come,
Yet in the quiet dawning and the gloam
Whose eyes are in the shadow and whose smile
Wavers and vanishes? Oh, is it you,
Child, are you come, with darkness and the dew,
To sit down and give comfort for a while?
To sit down as of old and lay your face
On a poor heart you have left comfortless,
To draw fond arms about your golden head?
So glad because you are not put away
Out of familiar things of every day,
Like a sad ghost dreaming that he is dead.
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