Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: 35, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's this of death, from you who never will die? Last Line: Make known him master, and for what good reason. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Creation; Death; Dead, The | ||||||||
What's this of death, from you who never will die? Think you the wrist that fashioned you in clay, The thumb that set the hollow just that way In your full throat and lidded the long eye So roundly from the forehead, will let lie Broken, forgotten, under foot some day Your unimpeachable body, and so slay The work he most had been remembered by? I tell you this: whatever of dust to dust Goes down, whatever of ashes may return To its essential self in its own season, Loveliness such as yours will not be lost, But, cast in bronze upon his very urn, Make known him Master, and for what good reason. | 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 AFTERNOON ON A HILL by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY |
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