Poems and sonnets of Louise Chandler Moulton / [by Louise Chandler Moulton] [electronic text]

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Moulton, Louise Chandler, 1835-1908

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Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company

1909

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BESIDE A BIER.

 I HAD never kissed her her whole life long,— Now I stand by her bier does she feel How, with love that the waiting years made strong, I set on her lips my seal?  

 Will she wear my kiss in the grave's long night, And wake sometimes with a thrill From dreams of the old life's missed delight, To feel that the grave is chill?  

 "It was warm," will she say, "in that world above; It was warm, but I did not know How he loved me there, with his whole life's love— It is cold, down here below."  