Versos English Nora May French The Mourner

English poem

The Mourner

by (1881–1907)

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Because my love has wave and foam for speech, And never words, and yearns as water grieves, With white arms curving on a listless beach, And murmurs inarticulate as leaves--

I am become beloved of the night-- Her huge sea-lands ineffable and far Hold crouched and splendid Sorrow, eyed with light, And Pain who beads his forehead with a star.