Evenstar, still evenstar <br />If this twilight thou dost shine <br />On a more unhappy head, <br />On tears lonelier than mine, <br />Vainer prayers and deepest sighs, <br />Take, sweet spirit, thou that art <br />Comforter of our despairs <br />All the prayers perforce unsaid, <br />All the sighs I cannot sigh, <br />All the tears I cannot shed; <br />Fill his eyes and flood his heart, <br />Who, my everlasting kin, <br />Broods, afar, unknown, apart. <br />Bring, ah bring him that surcease <br />From unsolaceable pain, <br />Which nor prayers, nor tears, nor sighs, <br />No, nor even the divine <br />Presence of thy eternal peace <br />Can, O evenstar, make mine.<br /><br />Robert Nichols<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/evenstar/
