To Morrow

The lighthouse shines across the sea;

The homing fieldfares sing for glee:

“Behold the shore!”

Alas for shattered wing and breast!

The lighthouse breakers make their nest,

And hedges bloom for them no more-

No more.

In their old church the lovers stand.

His wedding ring is on her hand,

All partings o’er.

Alas for mother still and cold,

The babe her dead young arms enfold!

Her lover will know love no more-

No more.

What fate is this for birds and men?-

The blue empyrean theirs-and then-

This fast-closed door.

One answers from his bended knee:

“Another morrow comes,” saith he,

“A day that brings the night no more-

No more.”

Ah, happy one! Yet happier he

Who knows he knows not what will be;

Who has no lore

To read the runes of life and death,

But lives his best while he has breath,

And leaves with God the evermore-

The evermore.

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Poems in English 

• Never Sure Which You Are by Mary Etta Metcalf by Poetry In English
• Important thing’s in life by Martin Smith by Poetry In English
• Nestling by Mark R Slaughter by Poetry In English
• Images by Mary Etta Metcalf by Poetry In English
• My Words Embrace by Mary Etta Metcalf by Poetry In English
• Illusions by Mark R Slaughter by Poetry In English
• My Mother On An Evening In Late Summer by Mark Strand by Poetry In English
• If Only by Mary Etta Metcalf by Poetry In English
• Morning by Mark R Slaughter by Poetry In English
• I, or Someone Like Me by Marvin Bell by Poetry In English
• Mending Socks by Martin Willitts Jr. by Poetry In English
• He Said To by Marvin Bell by Poetry In English
• Grumpy Old Man by Mary Etta Metcalf by Poetry In English
• Manure by Mark R Slaughter by Poetry In English
• Giving Myself Up by Mark Strand by Poetry In English
• Mammary Tunes by Mark R Slaughter by Poetry In English
• Ghosts by Martina Reisz Newberry by Poetry In English
• Lines For Winter by Mark Strand by Poetry In English
• From The Long Sad Party by Mark Strand by Poetry In English
• Life, wait for me by Martin Zakovski by Poetry In English

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Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

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