Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MEMORY AND HOPE, by ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS DE PRAT LAMARTINE Poet's Biography First Line: I rebehold you, o beloved death Last Line: About the hearth-stone of eternity? Subject(s): Death; Memory; Time; Dead, The | ||||||||
I REBEHOLD you, O belovéd Dead About these doors and windows gatheréd; With hands held out your own I seem to seize, As water to the eye shows mirrored faces That lean to meet our own in fond embraces Till on love-kindled lips our kisses freeze. O! Thou who madest memory, must it be For nought at all? ... Nay, we must render Thee, When life is over in one stream to pour What hath gone past and what is beyond knowing, The two halves of our life together flowing, This saying "Never," and that "For evermore." Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND THE BUTTERFLY by ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS DE PRAT LAMARTINE THE FOUNTAIN IN THE FOREST by ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS DE PRAT LAMARTINE |
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