Dear lonely mother-heart, -- I heard your prayer. Last night just as the purple shadows fell upon the Earth, There was the softest sound upon the stair That leads to Heaven's door -- And when we flung the golden portals wide, A host of tiny ones were waiting there To come inside. Such happy laughing eyes and dimples sweet, Such cuddly baby hands and tiny feet, Oh we were glad to welcome back this band Who left us such a little time before. And waiting just inside the door Were all the Mothers who had come that day And left their little ones so far away Upon the Earth. And arms were opened wide and faces smiled, And Mother Angels clasped an Angel child, And Mothers' breasts each couched a sleepy head, And carried them away to tuck in bed. And then I lit the stars outside their door. Have you not seen the million tiny stars up in the skies Lit just before the dark? They all are lit for frightened baby-eyes. Have you forgotten, I, like you, have lost a Son? I have been lonely too. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE TASK: BOOK 4. THE WINTER EVENING by WILLIAM COWPER ON THE DEATH OF MR. PURCELL by JOHN DRYDEN THE MORAL FABLES: THE TALE OF THE COCK, AND THE JEWEL by AESOP PSALM 126 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE BAB-LOCK-HYTHE by LAURENCE BINYON HARVEST by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE TRAGEDY OF CHARLES, DUKE OF BYRON by GEORGE CHAPMAN (1559-1634) |