Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CONTRADICTIONS, by AMY LEVY


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First Line: Now, even, I cannot think it true
Last Line: And yet my thought rejects the word.
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


NOW, even, I cannot think it true,
My friend, that there is no more you.
Almost as soon were no more I,
Which were, of course, absurdity !
Your place is bare, you are not seen,
Your grave, I'm told, is growing green ;
And both for you and me, you know,
There's no Above and no Below.
That you are dead must be inferred,
And yet my thought rejects the word.







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