Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE GRAVE-YARD, by JONES VERY


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First Line: My heart grows sick before the wide-spread death
Last Line: For in the body's health the soul's forgot.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards


My heart grows sick before the wide-spread death
That walks and speaks in seeming life around;
And I would love the corse without a breath,
That sleeps forgotten 'neath the cold, cold ground;
For these do tell the story of decay,
The worm and rotten flesh hide not nor lie;
But this, though dying too from day to day,
With a false show doth cheat the longing eye;
And hide the worm that gnaws the core of life,
With painted cheek and smooth deceitful skin;
Covering a grave with sights of darkness rife,
A secret cavern filled with death and sin;
And men walk o'er these graves and know it not,
For in the body's health the soul's forgot.






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