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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO ENGLAND IN HER SORROW, by ELIZABETH TOUSEY
First Line: I wear a quiet garb today
Last Line: With love's memorial flower.
Subject(s): England; Mourning; English; Bereavement
First Line: I wear a quiet garb today
Last Line: With love's memorial flower.
Subject(s): England; Mourning; English; Bereavement
I wear a quiet garb today,
Because a King is dead.
My thoughts are very far away,
With English hearts that mourn and pray
Beside their silent Head.
Ancestral land profoundly dear
In this bereaving hour,
We, too, would shed the kindred tear,
We, too, would deck the monarch's bier
With love's memorial flower.
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