I must remember now how once I woke <br />To find the harsh lamplight stream upon her bed, <br />The ceiling tremble in its giddy smoke, <br />And on the wall the agile spider spread, <br />To hear the reverberate vault of silence shake <br />Beneath the hollow crash of midnight's toil, <br />Whose profound strokes waned impotent to break <br />The charnel stillness of the city's soul. <br />These I remember, but would more forget <br />What is most fixed, whereby I am undone, <br />How white, how still you lay, though shuddering yet <br />In the last luxury of oblivion, <br />As if of Death you had taken love long denied, <br />With on your face the bliss of suicide.<br /><br />Robert Nichols<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-must-remember-now/
