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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEVEN TIMES FIVE [ - WIDOWHOOD], by JEAN INGELOW Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sleep and rest, my heart makes moan Last Line: On the hills of god! Subject(s): God; Hearts; Sleep; Widows & Widowers | |||
I sleep and rest, my heart makes moan Before I am well awake; "Let me bleed! O let me alone, Since I must not break!" For children wake, though fathers sleep With a stone at foot and at head: O sleepless God, forever keep, Keep both living and dead! I lift mine eyes, and what to see And a world happy and fair! I have not wished it to mourn with me -- Comfort is not there. O what anear but golden brooms, But a waste of reedy rills! O what afar but the fine glooms On the rare blue hills! I shall not die, but live forlore -- How bitter it is to part! O to meet thee, my love, once more! O my heart, my heart! No more to hear, no more to see! O that an echo might wake And waft one note of thy psalm to me Ere my heart-strings break! I should know it how faint soe'er, And with angel voices blent; O once to feel thy spirit anear: I could be content! Or once between the gates of gold, While an entering angel trod, But once -- thee sitting to behold On the hills of God! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A WIDOW SPEAKS TO THE AURORA'S OF A DECEMBER NIGHT by NORMAN DUBIE NEW AGE AT AIRPORT MESA by NORMAN DUBIE POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 5; FOR R.P. BLACKMUR by NORMAN DUBIE THE WIDOW OF THE BEAST OF INGOLSTADT by NORMAN DUBIE DOMESDAY BOOK: WIDOW FORTELKA by EDGAR LEE MASTERS WIDOW IN A STONE HOUSE by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER GETTING TO KNOW YOU by RUTH STONE ECHO AND THE FERRY by JEAN INGELOW GLADYS AND HER ISLAND; AN IMPERFECT TALE WITH DOUBTFUL MORAL by JEAN INGELOW |
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