Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MY LOST FRIENDS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poet's Biography First Line: One by one they have slipped from earth Last Line: Whose shores I cannot trace. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Friendship; Graves; Love; Soul; Dead, The; World; Tombs; Tombstones | ||||||||
One by one they have slipped from Earth, And vanished into the depths of space, And I, beside my lonely hearth, Find none to take their place. Never a word of fond farewell Fell from their lips ere they were gone; Never a hint since then to tell If after night came dawn! Latest of all to thus depart, Still is thy hand-clasp warm in mine; Wilt thou not tell me where thou art? Canst thou impart no sign? Wild are the winds above thy grave; Cold is the form I loved so well; But what to thee are storms that rave, Or the snow that last night fell? Out in the awful void of night, Numberless suns and planets roll; Has one of all those isles of light Received thy homeless soul? Mute is the sky as an empty tomb; Trackless the path, and all unknown; What means this journey through its gloom, Which each must make alone? Vain is the task; I strive no more To learn the secret of their fate; Till sounds for me the muffled oar, I can but hope and wait. But well I know they have gone from me Into the silent depths of space, Across a vast, uncharted sea, Whose shores I cannot trace. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES by RANDALL JARRELL SUBJECTED EARTH by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE GRAVE OF MRS. HEMANS by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER THOSE GRAVES IN ROME by LARRY LEVIS NOT TO BE DWELLED ON by HEATHER MCHUGH ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE by PAUL MULDOON ETRUSCAN TOMB by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR by MARVIN BELL A MAY MONODY by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD |
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