Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DEAD: 1, by DAVID MORTON Poet's Biography First Line: Think you the dead are lonely in that place? Last Line: Are ever by great beauty visited. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War | ||||||||
THINK you the dead are lonely in that place? They are companioned by the leaves and grass, By many a beautiful and vanished face, By all the strange and lovely things that pass. Sunsets and dawnings and the starry vast, The swinging moon, the tracery of trees -- These they shall know more perfectly at last, They shall be intimate with such as these. 'T is only for the living Beauty dies, Fades and drifts from us with too brief a grace, Beyond the changing tapestry of skies Where dwells her perfect and immortal face. For us the passage brief; -- the happy dead Are ever by great beauty visited. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...D'ANNUNZIO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1915: THE TRENCHES by CONRAD AIKEN TO OUR PRESIDENT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE HORSES by KATHARINE LEE BATES CHILDREN OF THE WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE U-BOAT CREWS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE RED CROSS NURSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES WAR PROFITS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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