|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SISTERS, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: One sleeps where the biscayan pines
Last Line: Now we are one again.
Subject(s): Sisters
First Line: One sleeps where the biscayan pines
Last Line: Now we are one again.
Subject(s): Sisters
ONE sleeps where the Biscayan pines
Their changeless shadow shed:
The eternal green of English hills
Is round the sister's bed.
-- O well the rustling pine-tree-tops
With the low lulling sea
May chant the litanies of peace
Life could not give to thee!
-- And well for thee, the central warmth
And brightness of the hearth,
So lie by these familiar hills,
And in thy native earth.
Yet while our requiem thus we bring,
Ye are not where ye are;
And on this cast-off heap of clay
Your spirits smile from far.
O sister souls! the blue sea strives
To sunder you in vain:
In life, in death, your hearts were one;
Now we are one again.
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!
Other Poems of Interest...
HYMN FOR LANIE POO by AMIRI BARAKA
CALMING KALI by LUCILLE CLIFTON
FAR MEMORY: 1. CONVENT by LUCILLE CLIFTON
FAR MEMORY: 4. TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THIS LIFE by LUCILLE CLIFTON
FAR MEMORY: 6. KARMA by LUCILLE CLIFTON
MY SISTER, THE QUEEN by EDWARD FIELD
A LITTLE CHILD'S HYMN; FOR NIGHT AND MORNING by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE
A CHILD'S EVENING HYMN by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE
A DANISH BARROW; ON THE EAST DEVON COAST by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE