 | Poems by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman |  |
222
[XXIV. Each common object, too,—the house, the grove]
Each common object, too,—the house, the grove,The street, the face, the ware in the window, seems
Alien and sad, the wreck of perished dreams;
Painfully present, yet remote in love
The day goes down in rain, the winds blow wide,
I leave the town; I climb the mountain-side;
Striving from stumps and stones to wring relief;
And in the senseless anger of my grief,
I rave and weep; I roar to the unmoved skies;
But the wild tempest carries away my cries!
Then back I turn to hide my face in sleep,
Again with dawn the same dull round to sweep,
And buy, and sell, and prate, and laugh, and chide,
As if she had not lived, or had not died.
| Poems by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman | |