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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE MOON-LIGHT SHINING UPON A FRIEND'S GRAVE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography
First Line: Show not, o moon! With pure and liquid beam
Last Line: And after bury'd friends are doom'd to live.
Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones
First Line: Show not, o moon! With pure and liquid beam
Last Line: And after bury'd friends are doom'd to live.
Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones
SHOW not, O Moon! with pure and liquid beam,
That mournful spot, where Memory fears to tread;
Glance on the grove, or quiver in the stream,
Or tip the hills -- but shine not on the dead:
It wounds the lonely hearts that still survive,
And after bury'd friends are doom'd to live.
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