Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RUN DOWN, by PATRICK MACGILL Poet's Biography First Line: In the grim dead end he lies, with passionless filmy / eyes Last Line: To a shift beyond the skies. Subject(s): Accidents; Cemeteries; Death; Fire; Graves; Tragedy; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones | ||||||||
IN the grim dead end he lies, with passionless filmy eyes, English Ned, with a hole in his head, Staring up at the skies. The engine driver swore as often he swore before "I whistled him back from the flamin' track, An' I couldn't do no more." The gaffer spoke through the 'phone "Platelayer Seventy-one Got killed to-day on the six-foot way, By a goods on the city run. "English Ned was his name, No one knows whence he came, He didn't take mind of the road behind And none of us is to blame." They turned the slag in the bed To cover the clotted red, Washed the joints and the crimsoned points, And buried poor English Ned. In the drear dead end he lies, With the earth across his eyes, And a stone to say, How he passed away To a shift beyond the skies. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES by RANDALL JARRELL SUBJECTED EARTH by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE GRAVE OF MRS. HEMANS by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER THOSE GRAVES IN ROME by LARRY LEVIS NOT TO BE DWELLED ON by HEATHER MCHUGH ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE by PAUL MULDOON ETRUSCAN TOMB by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR by MARVIN BELL |
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