Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 3, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER


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MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 3, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I watch the sweet grave face in timorous thought
Last Line: She hears a woe, 'tis simple tears she weeps.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters


I watch the sweet grave face in timorous thought
Lest I should see it dawn to some unrest
And read that in her heart is youth's ill guest,
The querulous young sadness, born of nought,
That wearies of the strife it has not fought,
And finds the life it has not had unblest,
And asks it knows not what that should be best,
And till Love come has never what it sought.

But she is still. A full and crystal lake
So gives it skies their passage to its deeps
In an unruffled morn where no winds wake,
And, strong and fretless, 'stirs not, nor yet sleeps.
My darling smiles and 'tis for gladness' sake;
She hears a woe, 'tis simple tears she weeps.






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