Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THREE SISTERS, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM


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THREE SISTERS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three sisters, charlotte, emily and anne
Last Line: Yet will see those gravestones if I can
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Bronte, Anne (1820-1849); Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855); Bronte, Emily (1818-1848)


THREE sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne,
Afar in Yorkshire wolds they live together;
Names that I keep like any sacristan;
The human registry of souls as pure
As sky in hermit waters on a moor,
Those liquid islands of dark seas of heather;
Voices that reach my solitude from theirs;
Hands that I kiss a thousand miles away,
And send a thousand greetings of my own-
But these, alas! only the west wind bears.
Nay, they have vanish'd. Hills and vales are lone
Where Earth once knew them. What is now to say ?
Three strangers dead - 'tis little to endure:
Great crowds of strangers vanish every day.
Yet will I see those gravestones if I may.






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