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O time, great Healer! canst thou still

The crying hearts that feel the knife?

O great Restorer, canst thou fill

The wide gaps broken out of life

By love and duty’s bitter strife?

O Friend, and canst thou, as they say,

Soothe all our troubles on thy breast,

Till, calm in death, they pass away,

And, one by one, are laid to rest

In unknown graves, beyond our quest?

Nay, there’s a wound thou canst not ease;

Nay, there’s a sickness past thine art.

Ah me! while I’m beyond the seas,

There’ll be a sore place in my heart

That, at a touch, will throb and smart.

Nay, nay, with all thy skill-with all

The care and cunning thou mayst spend,

Thou canst but weakly patch the wall

That wrench of parting came to rend,

That gap no mason’s hand can mend.

And as for buried sorrows-one

Hears every sound above its head;

Joys and prosperities may run

With happy footsteps o’er the dead,-

This grief of absence feels the tread.

O Time, thy graveyard is a street-

Thy graves no sculptured records crown;

Yet this one, trod of many feet,

Still shows the heap’d earth, fresh and brown,-

No foot of joy can press it down.

There velvet mosses soon will creep,

And grey and golden lichens grow;

There sweet white snowdrops soon will peep,

And purple violets bud and blow,

From winter’s bosom, cloak’d in snow;

There summer lights and shades will fall,

And soft rains patter through the trees;

There slender grasses, frail and tall,

Will weave and whisper in the breeze-

‘Twill be a grave in spite of these.

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• For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back by Marilyn Hacker by Poetry In English
• Exiles by Marilyn Hacker by Poetry In English
• Desesperanto by Marilyn Hacker by Poetry In English
• Dear Alzheimer’s by Maria Knox by Poetry In English
• Colors Passing Through Us by Marge Piercy by Poetry In English
• Children of My Own by Marie Starr by Poetry In English
• Belly Good by Marge Piercy by Poetry In English
• Baseball and Writing by Marianne Moore by Poetry In English
• Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy by Poetry In English
• Attack of the Squash People by Marge Piercy by Poetry In English
• Always Unsuitable by Marge Piercy by Poetry In English
• about emptiness… by Marina Cecilia Kohon by Poetry In English
• A Work Of Artifice by Marge Piercy by Poetry In English
• A Grave by Marianne Moore by Poetry In English
• Woman by Manmohan Acharya by Poetry In English
• Without exile, who am I? by Mahmoud Darwish by Poetry In English
• Winter’s End by Mac McGovern by Poetry In English
• Wind by Mac McGovern by Poetry In English
• What these girl means to me by Maphoto selokela by Poetry In English
• Two Stranger Birds in Our Feathers by Mahmoud Darwish by Poetry In English

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