Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A DEAD SOLDIER, by KENDALL HARRISON First Line: Though all the primrose paths of morning called Last Line: The laughing play of children in the sun. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Dead, The | ||||||||
Though all the primrose paths of morning called Your feet to follow them, and all the winds Of all the hills of earth, with plucking hands Wooed you to slopes that shone like emerald, You might not go. The thin green grass that binds Your feet had Earth and Death to forge its bands. The rain's wet kiss is on your lips, where lay Once the live pulses of a woman's soul; Your eyes give back unto the quiet sky Only the sheen of stars, the glare of day, Or darkness when the kindly shadows roll Up from the sea to hide you where you lie. No woman's whisper holds your strong heart spent And breathless. All the silver horns that blew While legions cheered, are still. These things are done, But these you have: a death for monument, And peace you died to buy, and after you The laughing play of children in the sun. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND A LETTER ON THE USE OF MACHINE GUNS AT WEDDINGS by KENNETH PATCHEN |
|