Day by day, with unconscious grace, You come and go, my white-capped nurse; As light your step, as bright your face If woes or blessings I rehearse. Strange to your kindred, far from home, And meeting with unquickened breath Man's final foe, you have become Familiar with the face of Death. When, in the spacious void of night, He came and paused beside my bed Once and again, and seared my sight, You held my hand until he fled. Now, as I leave this sacred room And you, I breathe a farewell prayer That Heaven may bring you fadeless bloom And I inhale the fragrance there. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPRINGTIDE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON LITTLE BROTHER'S STORY by KATHERINE MANSFIELD SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: TOM MERRITT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE BURIAL OF BOSTON CORBETT (ONE WARDEN TO ANOTHER) by EDGAR LEE MASTERS TO-MORROW IS MY BIRTHDAY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS CONRAD AT TWILIGHT by JOHN CROWE RANSOM |