To a Dead Woman7
Not a kiss in life; but one kiss, at life’s end,
I have set on the face of Death in trust for thee.
Through long years keep it fresh on thy lips, O friend!
At the gate of Silence give it back to me.
H.C. Bunner.
Notes
7 From “The Poems of H.C. Bunner,” copyright, 1884, 1892, 1896, by Charles Scribner’s Sons.