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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TOMB OF ETERNAL LIFE, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN Poet's Biography
First Line: From a port-hole his boy-face gazed back
Last Line: Crowds heave eternal life on him.
Subject(s): Future Life; Graves; Soldiers; War; Youth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones
First Line: From a port-hole his boy-face gazed back
Last Line: Crowds heave eternal life on him.
Subject(s): Future Life; Graves; Soldiers; War; Youth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones
KATHRYN WHITE RYAN
From a port-hole his boy-face gazed back
From a shell hole he fought the attack
He heard cries, he saw flame, he was burned.
... In silence ... returned. ...
Like breakers of slow seas
Folding their drooping rim
Crowds heave eternal life on him.
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