Our Mothers, lovely women pitiful; Our Sisters, gracious in their life and death; To us each unforgotten memory saith: '' Learn as we learned in life's sufficient school, Work as we worked in patience of our rule, Walk as we walked, much less by sight than faith, Hope as we hoped, despite our slips and scathe, Fearful in joy and confident in dule.'' I know not if they see us or can see; But if they see us in our painful day, How looking back to earth from Paradise Do tears not gather in those loving eyes?- Ah, happy eyes! whose tears are wiped away Whether or not you bear to look on me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ART ABOVE NATURE: TO JULIA by ROBERT HERRICK THE APE AND THE FOX, ON THE FRUITS OF GREEDINESS AND CREDULITY by JOHN BYROM SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 48 by BLISS CARMAN TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM LIBRARY by EDWARD CARPENTER HIVES AND HOMES by PHOEBE CARY W. H. EHEU! by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 7 by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. |