Mapping Indigenous Poetry of North America, 1830-1924

"When Love is Dead" by Alex Posey

Who last shall kiss the lips of love, when love is dead? 
Who last shall fold her hands and pillow soft her head?
Who last shall vigil keep beside her lonely bier?
I ask, and from the dark, cold height without, I hear 
The mystic answer: "I, her mother, Earth, shall press
Her lips the last, in my infinite tenderness." 

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