|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIFE AND DEATH, by MILTON SAWYER ROSE
First Line: Life has been unkind
Last Line: Created by the futility of death.
Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The
First Line: Life has been unkind
Last Line: Created by the futility of death.
Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The
Life has been unkind:
The clear distant calls
Of fair ideals which had hope hid in them
Have taken unto themselves a silence
And have ceased.
'Tis I have ceased;
'Tis I have been unkind.
I have for pay the insentiency of stone,
Indifference eternal to sun and storm;
And mine the kindness of immaterial things
Where force is formless, unconfined,
Or in infinitudes of substance beyond our sense;
And mine the measureless silence of the outer sky,
Unstirred by thought;
Mine the potential being
Created by the futility of death.
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