WHEN one had gone away To join the quiet dead, Bleak, bleak for me the day, And dark the clouds o'erhead. "Her voice I shall not hear again, Nor see her smile," I said. Yet when the Spring winds came The sad earth to beguile, I heard one call my name Whose voice was lost erewhile; And when the early violets blew, Dear God, I saw her smile! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BALLAD OF HECTOR IN HADES by EDWIN MUIR THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 15 by OMAR KHAYYAM SONNET TO NICHOLAS BLACKLEECH OF GRAYES INNE by RICHARD BARNFIELD THE ECCENTRIC by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN AN EPISTLE by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) |