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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN MEMORIAM, by J. CLARK GRAHAM
First Line: Old elms stand stark on a field of snow
Last Line: That is all.
Subject(s): Memory
First Line: Old elms stand stark on a field of snow
Last Line: That is all.
Subject(s): Memory
Old elms stand stark on a field of snow,
Another year begins.
Only the oak leaves fail to go,
Clotting brown where clear light thins
On the sky above,
On fields below.
Ruggedly they yet recall
A summer turned beyond the hill;
Another will come before they fall,
New leaves will thrust them, remembering still,
Where summers go --
That is all.
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