She Went Out Singing

She went out singing, and the poppies still
  Crowd round her door awaiting her return; 
She went out dancing, and the doleful rill
   Lingers beneath her walls her news to learn. 

Their love is but a seed of what she has sown;
Their grief is but a shadow of my own. 

O Tomb, O Tomb! did Zahra’s beauty fade, 
  Or dost thou still preserve it in thy gloom? 
O, Tomb, thou art nor firmament nor glade, 
   Yet in thee shines the moon and lilies bloom. 

Credit

From A Chant of Mystics (James T. White & Co., 1921) by Ameen Rihani. This poem is in the public domain.