Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LINES TO A LADY, by DJUNA BARNES


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LINES TO A LADY, by                    
First Line: Lay her under the rusty grass
Last Line: Within the grain.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


Lay her under the rusty grass,
With her two eyes heavy and blind and done;
Her two hands crossed beneath her breast
One on one.

Lay her out in the paling eve,
With its sudden tears and white birch-trees;
And let her passing seem to be
One with these.

Close her out of this hour of grief,
And casting the earth on her, like a breath,
Sew her tenderly, that she may
Reap her death!

And close her eyes, close, close her lips,
For still, too still is her smitten tongue;
Her hour's over, her breath has passed,
And her song is sung.

Lay her under the wild red grass
In the fields death-tossed and bowed with rain;
And let her silence seem to move
Within the grain.





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