Ambrose Bierce

Poems (5)

• Another Way

  I lay in silence, dead. A woman came / And laid a rose upon my breast, and said, …

• Creation

  God dreamed—the suns sprang flaming into place, / And sailing worlds with many a venturous race. …

• Montefiore

  I saw—’t was in a dream, the other night— / A man whose hair with age was thin and white; …

• Presentiment

  With saintly grace and reverent tread / She walked among the graves with me; …

• The Death of Grant

  Father! whose hard and cruel law / Is part of thy compassion’s plan, …