Exile
Exile
Original Text
Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, Little Songs: A Book of Poems (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1925): 35. PS 8531 I35L53 Robarts Library.
1I chose the place where I would rest
2When death should come to claim me,
3With the red-rose roots to wrap my breast
4And a quiet stone to name me.
5But I am laid on a northern steep
6With the roaring tides below me,
7And only the frosts to bind my sleep,
8And only the winds to know me.
Publication Start Year
1925
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
RPO 1998.
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