Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, RESURRECTION, by HARRIET ANNA WRATTEN


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RESURRECTION, by                    
First Line: O, I have learned how beauty, lingering, sings
Last Line: Upon the earth.
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


O, I have learned how Beauty, lingering, sings
Long after Song is dead and vibrant strings
Are stilled.
I have felt hyacinth and mignonette
Stir in my nostrils after storms beset
And killed
Their bloom. I can close covers on a cherished book
And feast upon it endlessly; or look
Into the sky
When midday challenges Belief to sight
The stars that wait on darkness for their light.
And I --
Pressing to heart these vows from God to me,
That Death is tempered with Eternity,
Reverence the worth
Of men who, singing, join the wept-for dead,
Valiantly, forward-looking, laying head
Upon the earth.





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