"On the Threshold" by Amy Levy

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend August 5, 2018   On the Threshold   Amy Levy

O God, my dream! I dreamed that you were dead; Your mother hung above the couch and wept Whereon you lay all white, and garlanded With blooms of waxen whiteness. I had crept Up to your chamber-door, which stood ajar, And in the doorway watched you from afar, Nor dared advance to kiss your lips and brow. I had no part nor lot in you, as now; Death had not broken between us the old bar; Nor torn from out my heart the old, cold sense Of your misprision and my impotence.                This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   "On the Threshold" was originally published in A London Plane-Tree and Other Verse (T. Fisher Unwin, 1889).   Amy Levy was born in London on November 10, 1861. Her books include A London Plane-Tree and Other Verse (T. Fisher Unwin, 1889) and Xantippe and Other Verses (E. Johnson, 1881), among others. She died on September 10, 1889. "I cannot live with You (640)" by Emily Dickinson "Ashes of Life" by Edna St. Vincent Millay "I Am Not Yours" by Sara Teasdale August Guest Editor: Evie Shockley   Thanks to Evie Shockley, author of semiautomatic (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), who curated Poem-a-Day this month. Read more about Shockley​ and our guest editors for the year. Help Support Poem-a-Day   If you value Poem-a-Day, please consider a monthly donation or one-time gift to help make it possible. Poem-a-Day is the only digital series publishing new, previously unpublished work by today's poets each weekday morning. The free series, which also features a curated selection of classic poems on weekends, reaches 450,000+ readers daily. Thank you! Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038