DECEMBER.
ONLY the sea intoning, Only the wainscot-mouse, Only the wild wind moaning Over the lonely house.
Darkest of all Decembers Ever my life has known,
Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]
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- Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]
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- Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907
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- Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- 1885
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"Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD9188.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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Page 40
Sitting here by the embers,Stunned and helpless, alone—
Dreaming of two graves lying Out in the damp and chill: One where the buzzard, flying, Pauses at Malvern Hill;
The other—alas! the pillows Of that uneasy bed Rise and fall with the billows Over our sailor's head.
Theirs the heroic story — Died, by frigate and town! Theirs the Calm and the Glory, Theirs the Cross and the Crown.
Mine to linger and languish Here by the wintry sea. Ah, faint heart! in thy anguish, What is there left to thee?
Only the sea intoning, Only the wainscot-mouse, Only the wild wind moaning Over the lonely house.