OH ! Death what have you to say? Like a bride - like a bride-groom they ride away: You shall go back to make up the fire, To learn patience - to learn grief, To learn sleep when the light has quite gone out of your earthly skies, But they have the light in their eyes To the end of their day." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNET TO THE AUTUMNAL MOON by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE DEPARTURE IN THE DARK by CECIL DAY LEWIS SUMTER [APRIL 12, 1861] by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN A PRELUDE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE 'STAY AT HOME'S' PLAINT, 1878 by GEORGE AUGUSTUS BAKER JR. |