Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A QUESTION, by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE Poet's Biography First Line: I asked if I got sick and died, would you Last Line: That board -- you'd rave and rend them with your teeth. Alternate Author Name(s): Synge, J. M. Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love | ||||||||
I asked if I got sick and died, would you With my black funeral go walking too, If you'd stand close to hear them talk or pray While I'm let down in that steep bank of clay. And, No, you said, for if you saw a crew Of living idiots pressing round that new Oak coffin -- they alive, I dead beneath That board -- you'd rave and rend them with your teeth. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD ON AN ANNIVERSARY by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE |
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