SHE sleeps within a sheltered marbled close Amid her quiet kin of yesterday, And all the marvel of her beauty's rose Has vanished quite away. Far 'neath an alien sky his body lies That was so filled with blood of youthful pride, And all unmarked, unheeded of men's eyes, Where last he fought and died. Yet who shall say their spirits held not tryst In unapparent realms of Love's delight, And that their souls, earth-freed, clung not and kissed Beneath the moon to-night? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE HOUSEKEEPER by ROBERT FROST FLORENCE VANE by PHILIP PENDLETON COOKE A HYMN TO CONTENTMENT by THOMAS PARNELL LITTLE JESUS by FRANCIS THOMPSON URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: THE FIRST CANTO, OR NEW MOON by WILLIAM BASSE A FRAGMENT by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN |