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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IF I SHOULD WAKE, by EMILY HUNTINGTON MILLER Poet's Biography
First Line: If I should wake, on some soft, silent night
Last Line: Bereft anew of love's dear, changeless thought.
Subject(s): Death; Dusk; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones
First Line: If I should wake, on some soft, silent night
Last Line: Bereft anew of love's dear, changeless thought.
Subject(s): Death; Dusk; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones
IF I should wake, on some soft, silent night,
When the west wind strayed from the garden's bloom,
To creep, with fitful touches, through the room
And see thee standing in the space of light,
Making the dusk about thee faintly bright,
With the old smile, like starlight in the gloom,
Would my heart leap to claim thee from the tomb,
Without a doubt to jar its full delight?
Or should I wait, with longing arms stretched wide,
And know, with sudden trembling and amaze,
Some subtle change in all thy being wrought
Since thou by death wast touched and glorified?
Then come not back, lest I should go my ways
Bereft anew of love's dear, changeless thought.
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