Versos English Theodosia Garrison The Unknowing

English poem

The Unknowing

by (1874–1944)

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They do not know the awful tears we shed, The tender treasures that we keep and kiss; They could not be so still—our quiet dead In knowing this. They do not know what time we turn to fill Love's empty chalice with a cheaper bliss; They could not be so still—so very still In knowing this.