I MUST REMEMBER NOW

by: Robert Nichols (1893-1944)

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

"I Must Remember Now" is reprinted from Aurelia and Other Poems. Robert Nichols. London: Chatto & Windus, 1920.

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