Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A GRAVE SONG, by AMY LOWELL



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First Line: I've a pocketful of emptiness
Last Line: Will you walk with me, will you follow the dead?
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of


I've a pocketful of emptiness for you, my Dear.
I've a heart like a loaf was baked yesteryear,
I've a mind like ashes spilt a week ago,
I've a hand like a rusty, cracked corkscrew.

Can you flourish on nothing and find it good?
Can you make petrifaction do for food?
Can you warm yourself at ashes on a stone?
Can you give my hand the cunning which has gone?

If you can, I will go and lay me down
And kiss the edge of your purple gown.
I will rise and walk with the sun on my head.
Will you walk with me, will you follow the dead?





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