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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A GRAVE, by WINIFRED LUCAS
First Line: Through every hour man lives on earth, his grave
Last Line: Time to his courses held your childish feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Life; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones
First Line: Through every hour man lives on earth, his grave
Last Line: Time to his courses held your childish feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Life; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones
THROUGH every hour man lives on earth, his grave
Is there, denied.
To every Hour his life is given—to save,
His feet, to guide
Clear of the death that wanders at his side.
Life took your years so innocent and fleet,
And kept them his;
For ever empty of a thing so sweet
One small grave is.
Time to his courses held your childish feet.
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