Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HAWTHORNE'S GRAVE, by FRANK DEXTER MASON First Line: Tall pines like sentinels by night and day Last Line: "long have we watched; when will the sleeper rise?" Subject(s): Cemeteries; Concord, Massachusetts; Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); Graveyards | ||||||||
TALL pines like sentinels by night and day Keep watch and ward above his place of rest, And when the sun has vanished down the west, And night and darkness hold their mystic sway; When the pale moon looks down through clouds of gray On the white city where to sleep addressed Naught can disturb the dwellers, naught molest; When all is still, so still that one may pray, -- Then, then those forest veterans, those old trees Standing on guard for many a long, long year, Clasp hands, and, pointing where the genius lies And has so long lain undisturbed at ease, They say, "Does not the time at length draw near? Long have we watched; when will the sleeper rise?" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...POEM FOR MY TWENTIETH BIRTHDAY by KENNETH KOCH THERE IS ALWAYS A LITTLE WIND by TED KOOSER JEWISH GRAVEYARDS, ITALY by PHILIP LEVINE SAILING HOME FROM RAPALLO by ROBERT LOWELL THE HILL ABOVE THE MINE by MALCOLM COWLEY EPITAPH: FOR MY GRANDMOTHER by COUNTEE CULLEN |
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