Francis William Bourdillon Life Poems

  • 1.
    She turned the page of wounds and death
    With trembling fingers. In a breath
    The gladness of her life became
    Naught but a memory and a name.
    ...
  • 2.
    The night has a thousand eyes,
    And the day but one;
    Yet the light of the bright world dies
    With the dying sun.
    ...
  • 3.
    When Death from some fair face
    Is stealing life away,
    All weep, save she, the grace
    That earth shall lose today.
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  • 4.
    What have I given,
    Bold sailor on the sea?
    In earth or heaven,
    That you should die for me?
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  • 5.
    HE came to call me back from death
    To the bright world above.
    I hear him yet with trembling breath
    Low calling, รข??O sweet love!
    ...
  • 6.
    An acorn swung
    On an oak-tree bough;
    So long it had hung,
    It would fain fall now
    ...
  • 7.
    The night has a thousand eyes,
    And the day but one;
    Yet the light of the bright world dies
    With the dying sun.
    ...
Total 7 Life Poems by Francis William Bourdillon

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Sometimes, to solace my sad heart, I say,
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