@3Threnody@1 If they said to you: "Master! The day is breaking; Here is another dawn, yet the same, pale; Master, I have opened the window, the hillside is gleaming; Dawn is lifting the eastern veil: The day is waking!" —I think I should hear you say, "I am dreaming." If they said to you: "Master, we are here, Vital and strong, Here at your door as at evensong; We have come laughing, looking ahead To the smile and the handclasp strong;" —They would answer, "The master is dead." Flowers of my garden round, Flowers like the leaves of a book, Flowers, why? ... Look! Here is a little of us, the low sound That turns and falls— As these flowers fall and turn; This is the wrath of life, and the gloom, To utter words—against the tomb. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JOHNNY APPLESEED by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE PAST IS THE PRESENT (2) by MARIANNE MOORE THE QUESTION by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY THE STUDY OF A SPIDER by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN THE LONELY STREET by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS THE PROMETHEUS VINCTUS OF AESCHYLUS by AESCHYLUS |