THE two pale women cried, But the man seemed to suffer more, Which he strove hard to hide. They stayed in the waiting-room, behind the door, Till startled by the entering engine-roar, As if they could not bear to have unfurled Their misery to the eyes of all the world. A soldier and his young wife Were the couple; his mother the third, Who had seen the seams of life. He was sailing for the East I later heard. -- They kissed long, but they did not speak a word; Then, strained, he went. To the elder the wife in tears "Too long; too long!" burst out. ('Twas for five years.) | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ROCK ME TO SLEEP by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN I AM THE WAY' by ALICE MEYNELL THE PROPHECY OF SAMUEL SEWALL by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER A TOMB BY THE SEA by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS WALKEN HWOME AT NIGHT by WILLIAM BARNES PEACE ON EARTH by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON SONNET: MAN VERSUS ASCETIC. 6 by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON |