Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN OLD TOMB OPENED, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poet's Biography First Line: Ivory and gold and jewels fashioned fine Last Line: "behold, bright news of our long yesterday!" Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Graves; Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones | ||||||||
IVORY and gold and jewels fashioned fine, Proud decorations of some dead king's room, Rise from their centuried sleep and freshly shine, Dazzling the daylight from the caverned gloom. Before such splendor from the maw of Time, Crumble the scroll-like years; ghosts stir and say: "Brothers, we strove for Beauty in our prime, Behold, bright news of our long yesterday!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES by RANDALL JARRELL SUBJECTED EARTH by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE GRAVE OF MRS. HEMANS by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER THOSE GRAVES IN ROME by LARRY LEVIS NOT TO BE DWELLED ON by HEATHER MCHUGH ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE by PAUL MULDOON ETRUSCAN TOMB by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR by MARVIN BELL BLACK SHEEP by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON |
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