When Lazarus left his charnel-cave, And home to Mary's house return'd, Was this demanded -- if he yearn'd To hear her weeping by his grave? 'Where wert thou, brother, those four days?' There lives no record of reply, Which telling what it is to die Had surely added praise to praise. From every house the neighbors met, The streets were fill'd with joyful sound, A solemn gladness even crown'd The purple brows of Olivet. Behold a man raised up by Christ! The rest remaineth unreveal'd; He told it not, or something seal'd The lips of that Evangelist. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EASTER HYMN by GEORGE SANTAYANA FAREWELL TO FARGO: SELLING THE HOUSE by KAREN SWENSON THE HERETIC: 4. HUMILITY by LOUIS UNTERMEYER SONNET by ALICE RUTH MOORE DUNBAR-NELSON ODES IV, 7. TO TORQUATUS. DIFFUGERE NIVES by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS |