Complete Poems

CondolenceThey hurried here as soon as you had died,Their faces damp with haste and sympathy,And pressed my hand in theirs, and smoothed my knee,And clicked their tongues and watched me, mournful-eyed.Gently they told me of that Other-sideHow, even then, you waited there for me,And what ecstatic meeting ours would be.Moved by the lovely tale, they broke, and cried.And when I smiled, they told me I was brave,And they rejoiced that I was comforted,And left to tell of all the help they gave.But I had smiled to think how you, the dead,So curiously preoccupied and grave,Would laugh, could you have heard the things they said


I've got a few other favourites from her collection of poetry: Fulfilment, Charles Dickens, Godspeed, Little Words, Rainy Day, Recurrence, Resumé, Solace, Tombstones in the starlight and Verse for a certain dog.