Tag Archive for: Emily Sargent Lewis

A Memory

A Memory Emily Sargent Lewis 572 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

A Prayer in Pain. 147.8 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-…