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Poem by Henry Cuyler Bunner


A Dead Woman


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, 0 friend!
At the gate of Silence give it back to me.



Henry Cuyler Bunner


Henry Cuyler Bunner's other poems:
  1. Forfeits
  2. Shriven
  3. Deaf
  4. The Red Box at Vesey Street
  5. Janiveer in March


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