A Death-Bed. James Aldrich (1810-1856). V. Death and Bereavement. Bliss Carman, et al., eds. 1904. The World's Best Poetry. III. Sorrow and Consolation

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume III. Sorrow and Consolation. 1904.

V. Death and Bereavement

A Death-Bed

James Aldrich (1810–1856)


HER suffering ended with the day;
Yet lived she at its close,
And breathed the long, long night away,
In statue-like repose.

But when the sun, in all his state,	5
Illumed the eastern skies,
She passed through glory’s morning-gate,
And walked in Paradise!