was then
by A.C. Zenner
it was…
 as yet…
 not eaten…
 that meal…
which tore…
 and drew…
 the breath…
 of life…
from her…
 and all…
 she strove…
 to be…
to him…
 his crust…
 too thick…
 to cut…
with just…
 her meager knife
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Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
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Poems in English
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: The Prelude poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
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 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 83. Dip down upon the northern shore poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 82. I wage not any feud with death poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 7. Dark house, by which once more I s poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 78. Again at Christmas did we weave poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 5. Sometimes I Hold it half a Sin poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 55. The wish, that of the living whol poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 54. Oh, yet we Trust that somehow Goo poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 45. The baby new to earth and sky poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 39. Old warder of these buried bones poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 2. Old Yew, which graspest at the sto poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 22. The path by which we twain did go poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 16. I Envy not in any Moods poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 15. To-night the winds begin to rise poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 126. Love is and was my Lord and King poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 
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