My Dead

Last night in my feverish dreams I heard
A voice like the moan of an autumn sea,
Or the low, sad wail of a widowed bird,
And it said-”My darling, come home to me.”

Then a hand was laid on my throbbing head-
As cold as clay, but it soothed my pain:
I wakened and knew from among the dead
My darling stood by my coach again.