Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A CHILD IN DEATH, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You would have scoffed if we had told you yesterday Subject(s): Religion | ||||||||
You would have scoffed if we had told you yesterday Love made us feel, or so it was with me, like some great bird Trying to hold and shelter you in its strong wing;- A gay little shadowy smile would have tossed us back such a solemn word, And it was not for that you were listening When so quietly you slipped away With half the music of the world unheard. What shall we do with this strange summer, meant for you,- Dear, if we see the winter through What shall be done with spring? This, this is the victory of the Grave; here is death's sting, That is not strong enough, our strongest wing. But what of His who like a Father pitieth? His Son was also, once, a little thing, The wistfullest child that ever drew breath, Chased by a sword from Bethlehem and in the busy house at Nazareth Playing with little rows of nails, watching the carpenter's hammer swing, Long years before His hands and feet were tied And by a hammer and the three great nails He died, Of youth, of Spring, Of sorrow, of loneliness, of victory the King, Under the shadow of that wing. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY |
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