Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PULSE OF MY HEART, by WILLIAM SHARP


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First Line: Are these your eyes, isla
Last Line: Pulse of my heart!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Children; Death; Eyes; Grief; Legacies; Loss; Love; Parents; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood


Are these your eyes, Isla,
That look into mine?
Is this smile, this laugh,
Thine?

Heart of me, dear,
O pulse of my heart,
This is our child, our child—
And . . . we apart!

Wrought of thy life, Isla,
Wrought in my womb,
Never to feel thy kiss!—
Ah, bitter doom.

Hush, hush: within thine eyes
His eyes I see . . .
Soft as a bird's sighs
Thy breathings rise! . . .
If there be Paradise
For him and me
(Who hold it but a dream Because of bitter fate)
The first supernal gleam
Beyond the flame-swept gate
Shall be thine eyes when thou drawest near—
None other shall it be
Who his lost hands, with mine, and thine
In love refound, shall intertwine . . .
But now, alas, alas, we are far apart,
My baby dear,
Pulse of my Heart!





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