Somehow I cannot let it go yet, funeral though it is, Let it remain back there on its nail suspended, With pink, blue, yellow, all blanch'd, and the white now gray and ashy, One wither'd rose put years ago for thee, dear friend; But I do not forget thee. Hast thou then faded? Is the odor exhaled? Are the colors, vitalities, dead? No, while memories subtly play -- the past vivid as ever; For but last night I woke, and in that spectral ring saw thee, Thy smile, eyes, face, calm, silent, loving as ever; So let the wreath hang still awhile within my eye-reach, It is not yet dead to me, nor even pallid. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...REVELATION by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THE LILY IN CRYSTAL by ROBERT HERRICK LITTLE GOLDENHAIR by F. BURGE SMITH CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD by WALT WHITMAN TO A WOMAN by KENNETH SLADE ALLING THE MAID'S TRAGEDY by FRANCIS BEAUMONT TO HIS DEAR FRIEND THOMAS RANDOLPH, ON HIS COMEDY 'THE JEALOUS LOVERS' by RICHARD BENEFIELD |