English Poetry. Sarah Orne Jewett. Assurance. Сара Орн Джеветт.

Sarah Orne Jewett (Сара Орн Джеветт)

Assurance

It sometimes happens that two friends will meet,
And with a smile and touch of hands again
Go on their way along the noisy street.
Each is so sure of all the friendship sweet,
The loving silence gives no thought of pain.
And so I think those friends whom we call dead
Are with us. It may be some quiet hour,
Or time of busy work for hand and head,
Their love fills all the heart that missed them so.
They bring a sweet assurance of the life
Serene above the worry that we know,
And we are braver for the comfort brought.
Why should we grieve because they do not speak
Our words that lie so far below their thought?

Sarah Orne Jewett’s other poems:

1. At Waking
2. Discontent
3. The Soul of the Sunflower
4. Boat Song
5. The Eagle Trees

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) Assurance (“Last night I slept, and when I woke her kiss”)

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