Lizette Woodworth Reese Short Poems
Famous Short Lizette Woodworth Reese Poems. Short poetry by famous poet Lizette Woodworth Reese. A collection of the all-time best Lizette Woodworth Reese short poems
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Lizette Woodworth Reese
A rhyme of good Death's inn!
My love came to that door;
And she had need of many things,
The way had been so sore.
My love she lifted up her head,
"And is there room?" said she;
"There was no room in Bethlehem's inn
For Christ who died for me.
"
But said the keeper of the inn,
"His name is on the door.
"
My love then straightway entered there:
She hath come back no more.
by
Lizette Woodworth Reese
Love came back at fall o' dew,
Playing his old part;
But I had a word or two
That would break his heart.
"He who comes at candlelight,
That should come before,
Must betake him to the night
From a barred door.
"
This the word that made us part
In the fall o' dew;
This the word that brake his heart --
Yet it brake mine, too.