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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LITTLE GRAY SONGS FROM ST. JOSEPH'S: 30, by GRACE FALLOW NORTON Poet's Biography
First Line: If my dark grandam had but known
Last Line: With him I make my quest.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Mothers
First Line: If my dark grandam had but known
Last Line: With him I make my quest.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Mothers
If my dark grandam had but known,
Or yet my wild grandsir,
Or the lord that lured the maid away
That was my sad mother,
O had they known, O had they dreamed
What gift it was they gave,
Would they have stayed their wild, wild love,
Nor made my years their slave?
Must they have stopped their hungry lips
From love at thought of me?
O life, O life, how may we learn
Thy strangest mystery?
Nay, they knew not, as we scarce know;
Their souls, O let them rest;
My life is pupil unto pain --
With him I make my quest.
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