An instant -- leapt -- leapt -- followed. -- In the hall I heard the click of key on upper floor -- Strength left my knees -- I could but crawl and crawl -- And trembled groping to her chamber door -- I heard the rattling of a box -- a knife? -- Razor at throat? -- the panel -- shall I break? -- Perhaps it's nothing -- I grip the knob, -- "My wife! O open! Open for your husband's sake!" -- She opened . . . with a vision on her face, And hands uplifted to immortal things, And past me flew . . . upon her toilet case An emptied glass with foam in awful rings, And a green bottle labelled with the red Letters that shrieked upon me, @3"She is dead!"@1 | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...YOUNG LINCOLN by EDWIN MARKHAM LINES WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM AT ELBINGERODE, IN HARTZ FOREST by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE HOUSEKEEPER by CHARLES LAMB HYMN: 32. THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST by CHRISTOPHER SMART THE OWL by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS THE MUSIC O' THE DEAD by WILLIAM BARNES A GLORY GONE by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT ON MR. CHURCHILL'S SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY (NOVEMBER 30, 1944) by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB |