COLUMNS and graven monuments, these can give Great joy of owning -- while you live. Not very far can men's vain praise help on The spirits of the dead and gone. 'Tis skill and grace of art that follow there, Yet live, winning remembrance here. Plato and Homer the assurance have Only of art, not painted grave. Happy, whose fame, secure in books' enshrining, Need in no vain tomb be pining. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN AFTER DAYS; RONDEAU by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON ODE FOR MEMORIAL DAY by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR HYMN: 32. THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST by CHRISTOPHER SMART LUCY (4) by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |