Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 9, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER


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MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 9, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh weary hearts! Poor mothers that look back!
Last Line: For yet some sparks to warm the livelong gloom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters


Oh weary hearts! Poor mothers that look back!
So outcasts from the vale where they were born
Turn on their road and, with a joy forlorn,
See the far roofs below their arid track:
So in chill buffets while the sea grows black
And windy skies, once blue, are tost and torn,
We are not yet forgetful of the morn,
And praise anew the sunshine that we lack.

Oh, sadder than pale sufferers by a tomb
That say "My dead is happier, and is more"
Are they who dare no "is" but tell what's o'er--
Thus the frank childhood, those the lovable ways--
Stirring the ashes of remembered days
For yet some sparks to warm the livelong gloom.





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