To Morrow

The lighthouse shines across the sea;

The homing fieldfares sing for glee:

“Behold the shore!”

Alas for shattered wing and breast!

The lighthouse breakers make their nest,

And hedges bloom for them no more-

No more.

In their old church the lovers stand.

His wedding ring is on her hand,

All partings o’er.

Alas for mother still and cold,

The babe her dead young arms enfold!

Her lover will know love no more-

No more.

What fate is this for birds and men?-

The blue empyrean theirs-and then-

This fast-closed door.

One answers from his bended knee:

“Another morrow comes,” saith he,

“A day that brings the night no more-

No more.”

Ah, happy one! Yet happier he

Who knows he knows not what will be;

Who has no lore

To read the runes of life and death,

But lives his best while he has breath,

And leaves with God the evermore-

The evermore.

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Poems in English 

• Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law by Adrienne Rich
• Shattered Head by Adrienne Rich
• Rural Reflections by Adrienne Rich
• Prospective Immigrants Please Note by Adrienne Rich
• Power by Adrienne Rich
• Planetarium by Adrienne Rich
• Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff by Adrienne Rich
• Our Whole Life by Adrienne Rich
• Orion by Adrienne Rich
• On Edges by Adrienne Rich
• November 1968 by Adrienne Rich
• My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts by Adrienne Rich
• Moving In Winter by Adrienne Rich
• Miracle Ice Cream by Adrienne Rich
• Living In Sin by Adrienne Rich
• Integrity by Adrienne Rich
• In Those Years by Adrienne Rich
• In The Evening by Adrienne Rich
• In A Classroom by Adrienne Rich
• Implosions by Adrienne Rich

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