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The Collected Poems of Philip Bourke Marston | ||
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REMEMBERED GRIEF.
Like some persistent ghost Grief's memory broods,
An awful Presence in his lonely room;
Sometimes it swathes him in tremendous gloom,
Then scourges him to Frenzy's maddest moods:
It bides by him in country solitudes;
It shouts through cities with the voice of doom;
At night beside his bed he sees it loom,
A mocking Fiend no subterfuge eludes.
An awful Presence in his lonely room;
Sometimes it swathes him in tremendous gloom,
Then scourges him to Frenzy's maddest moods:
It bides by him in country solitudes;
It shouts through cities with the voice of doom;
At night beside his bed he sees it loom,
A mocking Fiend no subterfuge eludes.
The Grief itself has passed; and fair things hide
Its grave, — where grasses grow and wild flowers spring.
And soft winds come and go, and glad birds sing,—
But its stern shadow fareth at his side,
With pitiless eyes and wan lips whispering:
“Lo! I am with thee still, although I died.”
Its grave, — where grasses grow and wild flowers spring.
And soft winds come and go, and glad birds sing,—
But its stern shadow fareth at his side,
With pitiless eyes and wan lips whispering:
“Lo! I am with thee still, although I died.”
The Collected Poems of Philip Bourke Marston | ||