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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THRENODY, by WINIFRED WELLES
First Line: I never have known anyone so proud
Last Line: This is not you, oh pitiful and dead!
Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The
First Line: I never have known anyone so proud
Last Line: This is not you, oh pitiful and dead!
Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The
I never have known anyone so proud,
So fierce for faith, so strong for nobleness.
I never heard you whine nor cry distress,
Nor saw you kneel nor knew your bright head bowed.
Dreams, Love and Laughter were a swift, white crowd
Of wings flashed upward from your loveliness --
You carried Truth, wore Honor as a dress,
And wound yourself in Beauty like a cloud.
Surely this is not you who lies so low,
Smitten as others, yielding as they must
With abject hands and smooth, submissive head --
All fire and glory crumpled by one blow,
Bewildered and beaten and brought to dust,
This is not you, oh pitiful and dead!
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