Poems

<h2><SPAN name="DISAPPOINTMENT" id="DISAPPOINTMENT"></SPAN>DISAPPOINTMENT.</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="dropcap">T</span>HE light has left the hill-side. Yesterday<br/></span> <span class="i2a">These skies shewed blue against the dusky trees,<br/></span> <span class="i2">The leaves' soft murmur in the evening breeze<br/></span> <span class="i0">Was music, and the waves danced in the bay.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Then was my heart, as ever, far away<br/></span> <span class="i2">With you,&mdash;and I could see you as one sees<br/></span> <span class="i2">A mirrored face,&mdash;and happiness and ease<br/></span> <span class="i0">And hope were mine, in spite of long delay.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">After these months of waiting, this is all!<br/></span> <span class="i2">Hope, dead, lies coffined, shrouded in despair,<br/></span> <span class="i2">With all the blessings of the outer air<br/></span> <span class="i0">Forgot, 'neath the black covering of a pall.<br/></span> <span class="i2">Only the darkening of the woodland ways,<br/></span> <span class="i2">A heart's low moaning over wasted days.<br/></span></div> </div> <hr /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />