Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A DIEU! AND AU REVOIR!, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY First Line: As you love me, let there be Last Line: "his father!" Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Future Life; Religion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology | ||||||||
As you love me, let there be No mourning when I go, -- No tearful eyes, No hopeless sighs, No woe, -- nor even sadness! Indeed I would not have you sad, For I myself shall be full glad, With the high triumphant gladness Of a soul made free Of God's sweet liberty. -- No windows darkened; For my own Will be flung wide, as ne'er before, To catch the radiant inpour Of Love that shall in full atone For all the ills that I have done; And the good things left undone; -- No voices hushed; My own, full-flushed With an immortal hope, will rise In ecstasies of new-born bliss And joyful melodies. Rather, of your sweet courtesy, Rejoice with me At my soul's loosing from captivity. Wish me "Bon voyage!" As you do a friend Whose joyous visit finds its happy end. And bid me both "A Dieu!" And "Au revoir!" Since, though I come no more, I shall be waiting there to greet you, At His Door. And, as the feet of the bearers tread The ways I trod, Think not of me as dead, But rather -- "Happy, thrice happy, he whose course is sped! He has gone home -- to God, His Father!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY A NEW EARTH by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY |
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