Tag Archive for: Emily Sargent Lewis
A Memory
Family, MemoriesA Memory
Emily Sargent Lewis
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My mother died when I was four,
That's why I can't remember more
Of what she used to do and say
So long ago I'm six to-day
I know one day she climbed with me,
Way up into the apple tree,
The flowers fell…
A Prayer in Pain
UncategorizedA Prayer in Pain.
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Lord I beseech thee, not so sharp again:
I cannot suffer so and be thy child;
I am some brute thing, tortured, trapped and wild.
Fighting the hands that would relive Its pain.
I have known sorrow, Lord, and bless-…