Ghost Weather

Wild gusts of drizzle hoot and hiss
Through writhing lindens torn in two--
The dead’s own days are days like this!
Yea; let me sit and be with you.

Here in your willow chair, whose seat
Spreads purple plush.--Hark! how the gusts
Seem moaning voices that repeat
Some grief here; in this room, where dusts

Make dim each ornament and chair;
This locked-in memory where you died:
Since angels stood here, saintly fear
Guards each dark corner, mournful-eyed.

Through this dim light bend your dim face;
Or, like a rain-mist, gray of gleam,
A soft, dim cloudiness of lace,
Stand near me while I dream, I dream.