MY heart was heavy, for its trust had been Abused, its kindness answered with foul wrong; So, turning gloomily from my fellowmen, One summer Sabbath day I strolled among The green mounds of the village burial-place; Where, pondering how all human love and hate Find one sad level; and how, soon or late, Wronged and wrongdoer, each with meekened face, And cold hands folded over a still heart, Pass the green threshold of our common grave, Whither all footsteps tend, whence none depart, Awed for myself, and pitying my race, Our common sorrow, like a mighty wave, Swept all my pride away, and trembling I forgave! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PICTURES FROM APPLEDORE: 3 by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL WHEN DEATH HAS LOST THE KEY by KENNETH SLADE ALLING BLEUE MAISON by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN SONNET: 3 by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES THE TRYST by VALERY YAKOVLEVICH BRYUSOV TWO SONS by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE NOVEL by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON |