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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEAD HEART, by FRANK WILMOT Poet's Biography First Line: What if my heart should die and I did not know! Last Line: I should die gladly then. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley | |||
WHAT if my heart should die and I did not know! If I saw the nodding dahlias come and go With no delighted start -- Went cold in September's sun where the swallows dart Close to my face In their aery race -- Whom, whom should I curse for my dying heart? If, in the windy pools along the shore, The sun its silver dapples made no more! If the slow-falling shuffle of the sea Made no unspeakable yearning move in me! And, when the dawn came loaded with new fate For flowers and clouds and men, should my high gait Spurn in its pride the hedges that I pass? The white geraniums near the green lawn grass? Did I spurn the jewels that a wet night leaves Swung from web-wheels that the spider weaves -- If I lost my faith in a late sun ray, If the glory of daffodils splipt away; If I looked on romping dogs without a move Saying that in that there was nothing to love; If I dreamed I saw What revealeth now, but saw it not, and awe Stole from my soul through some constituent flaw! If dark gleams of the cliffs where turns the creek Harboured but darkness and no gnomes that speak Truth and delight! And oh, the night! What if I lost The steel-blue colour of a night of frost! If the gleam of lighted windows on the hill Found this heart steady still; If a tall white house on a pine-clad rise Probed a cold heart through unresponsive eyes, If the dawn-trot of an early market load Broke me no joy from out its hidden road, From the song of its sleepy men -- I should die gladly then. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SERAPH DESCENDS by FRANK WILMOT APPLES IN THE MOON by FRANK WILMOT BEAUTY OF THE WORLD by FRANK WILMOT CHANCE MEETING by FRANK WILMOT EL GAI SABER (CHANT ROYAL) by FRANK WILMOT |
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