Hermione and other poems [electronic text]
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- Title
- Hermione and other poems [electronic text]
- Author
- Sill, Edward Rowland, 1841-1887
- Publication
- Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- 1899
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"Hermione and other poems [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAP5349.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 5, 2024.
Pages
III
THE letter came at last. I carried it To the deep woods unopened. All the trees Were hushed, as if they waited what was writ, And feared for me. Silent they let me sit Among them; leaning breathless while I read, And bending down above me where they stood. A long way off I heard the delicate tread Of the light-footed loiterer, the breeze, Come walking toward me in the leafy wood. I burned the page that brought me love and woe.Page 4
At first it writhed to feel the spires of flame, Then lay quite still; and o'er each word there came Its white ghost of the ash, and burning slow Each said: "You cannot kill the spirit; know That we shall haunt you, even till heart and brain Lie as we lie in ashes—all in vain."