Forever

by George Blackstone Field — a poem card from Justes Mots

George Blackstone Field's tender elegy for a lost love, expressed through the speaker's waking dreams and twilight visions of reunion. The poem captures the ache of grief—uncertain whether memories are dreams or visions, and whether prayers are answered or merely wishful thinking. With quiet dignity, the speaker asks for the mercy of continued dreaming as a solace for the loss of what might have been.

Do I dream, dear love, of the years that live
In memory's sacred bower?
Do I vision again in the twilight,
Midst quiet of the evening hour,
That I hold you close as in days that fled,
And whisper "Dear love, dear love,"
While I fancy you murmur "Forever,"
My girl, from your home above?…

Themes: sympathy · grief · love · reflection