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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LACE SHROUD, by WINIFRED WELLES
First Line: I promise that in death
Last Line: The map of my white trip.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
First Line: I promise that in death
Last Line: The map of my white trip.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
I promise that in death
I shall float out as lost
As though I rode my breath
Upon the midnight frost.
Oh cold and small and still
My angel host will be,
As if across the sill
A bird had come for me.
Though hanging in the snow
His trumpet made of glass,
You will not hear him blow,
You will not see me pass.
But on the pane his claw
With crystal in its tip,
Precise and clear will draw
The map of my white trip.
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