Death & Dying

Dorothy

by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1851–1926

From An American Anthology (1900)

Death & Dying

Dear little Dorothy, she is no more!
I have wandered world-wide from shore to shore,
I have seen as great beauties as ever were wed;
But none can console me for Dorothy dead.

Dear little Dorothy! How strange it seems
That her face is less real than the faces of dreams;
That the love which kept true, and the lips which so spoke,
Are more lost than my heart, which died not when it broke!

MLA

Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne. “Dorothy.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lathrop_rh/2/.

Chicago

Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne. “Dorothy.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lathrop_rh/2/.

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