Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO DEATH, by MARGARET HALEY


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TO DEATH, by                    
First Line: Oh I can say with my lips
Last Line: (preserve me always, oh god, as now!)
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


Oh I can say with my lips -- "Death,"
And I can think in my brain -- "Death,"
But I cannot feel in my heart -- "Death,"
So it beats too fast, and I catch my breath,
And I test my faith with the word "death":
For the only death that I feel now
Is impersonal -- (I am young now) --
It's the death of the summer I feel now
As much as gladness and youth allow.
That's the only death that I feel NOW.
(Preserve me always, Oh God, as now!)





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