Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HIC JACET, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So love is dead that has been quick so long! Last Line: And yet, had love been love, he had not died. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death; Love - Nature Of; Dead, The | ||||||||
So love is dead that has been quick so long! Close, then, his eyes, and bear him to his rest, With eglantine and myrtle on his breast, And leave him there, their pleasant scents among; And chant a sweet and melancholy song About the charms whereof he was possessed, And how of all things he was loveliest, And to compare with aught were him to wrong. Leave him beneath the still and solemn stars, That gather and look down from their far place With their long calm our brief woes to deride, Until the Sun the Morning's gate unbars And mocks, in turn, our sorrows with his face; -- And yet, had Love been Love, he had not died. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND A PAINTED FAN by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON AT MIDSUMMER by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON LAUS VENERIS (A PICTURE BY BURNE-JONES) by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON |
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