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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CORPSES Matches Found: 97 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHANT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: With all our mirth, I doubt if we shall be Last Line: Due to the corpses you have gone and seen to. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Corpses; Morticians; Old Age; Cadavers A MONUMENT, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a weak chargray-and-camellia dusk Subject(s): Corpses; Cadavers AD, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harper's and many magazines contain Subject(s): Magazines; War; Soldiers; Corpses; Pictures; Cadavers ADDIO, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The corpse my mother made Last Line: Oh, daughter, if I could call Subject(s): Death – Mothers; Corpses AFTER DEATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The four boards of the coffin lid / heard all the dead man did Last Line: "flesh to feed hell's worm upon." Subject(s): Coffins; Corpses; Curses; Death; Cadavers; Dead, The ANATOMY LAB, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wavering his scums and incisions Last Line: Let any man have a slice Subject(s): Corpses AND NOW, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That’s my corpse you’re looking at, laid out as I’ve Last Line: "earth was good to me, and I would give myself back in Subject(s): Corpses; Funerals; Self APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 5, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw them laughing, smiling gladly Last Line: The bitterness of this last hour. Subject(s): Corpses; Laughter; Tears; Cadavers BAYOU, by MARY KARR Poem Source First Line: I heap your corpse with flowers Last Line: Tug, the shining line like a cord %strung through me, plucked and singing Subject(s): Bayous; Corpses BEFORE SEDAN, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in this leafy place Last Line: Death will not have it so. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Corpses; France; Tragedy; World War I; Cadavers; First World War BURNING THE CAT, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the spring, by the big shuck-pile Last Line: Death, however reckoned, is hard to dispose of Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Corpses CASUALTIES: 2. SKULLS AND CUPS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look up, %how do you tell a skull Last Line: Broken up the fields after nsukka' Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Nigerian Civil War; Skeletons; Skulls CHRIST OF VELAZQUEZ: PART 1, SELS, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of what art thou thinking, oh my dead christ Last Line: Thou art nurse of our hope in christ the saviour Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Corpses; Death CONFESSION, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The general's men sit at the door. Her eyes Last Line: It has kept you from loneliness like a mob. Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Corpses; Mobs; Crowds; Cadavers CONFIDENCE, by JUAN GONZALO ROSE Poem Source First Line: Arnold, I must tell you Last Line: Dips his dirty fingers in your wine Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Pizarro, Francisco (1475-1521) CORONER'S REPRIEVE, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the third time in a week he dreams Last Line: Or pride, ingenious with his lust, determined %enough to die Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Detective Stories CORPORAL RABINOVITCH'S CORPSE, by ASSIA MARGULIS Poem Source First Line: Corporal rabinovitch's corpse %has been laid to eternal rest' Last Line: In tel aviv and just can't get a lift Subject(s): Corpses; Middle East - Conflicts CORPSE, by MOHAMED TALIB Poem Source First Line: I dreamt about a corpse Last Line: The corpse fulfils the hopes Subject(s): Corpses CORPSE WAS IN THE BED. ON ITS BACK. THE EYES WERE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Bottles of beer. Chicken wings on the end table Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Corpses; Death CORPSES (1), by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are unhappy in this shut down Last Line: Slipperly look. And even a corpse can be a disguise Subject(s): Corpses; Death DEAD, by SALVATORE QUASIMODO Poem Source First Line: It seemed as if voices were raised Last Line: And branches lifting the stars Subject(s): Cemeteries; Corpses; Death; Graves DIRE: 2. A YEAR AFTER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If blood throbs yet in this that was thy face Last Line: Thy mouth to a snake's whose slime outlives the sting, Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Nations; Cadavers; Dead, The DIRE: 9. THE AUGURS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay the corpse out on the altar; bid the elect Last Line: They carve the corpse -- a beast without a heart. Subject(s): Corpses; Leprosy; Nations; Rome, Italy; Cadavers; Lepers DO PEOPLE MOULDER EQUALLY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: He told me, death was dead Variant Title(s): Poem: 390; Poem: 43 Subject(s): Bible; Corpses; Death; Religion DOG DREAMING, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The paws twitch in a place of chasing Last Line: A sleeping beast knows who you are Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Animals; Corpses; Dogs; Sleep EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: UNKNOWN FEMALE CORPSE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Headless, lacking foot and hand Subject(s): Corpses; Women; World War I; Cadavers; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: UNKNOWN FEMALE CORPSE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Headless, lacking foot and hand Last Line: I beseech all women's sons %know I was a mother once Subject(s): Corpses; Women; World War I FROM THE CADAVER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The arm you hold up Last Line: Cold in a stranger's hand Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Fathers And Sons HEARSE SONG (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Did you ever think as the hearse rolls by Subject(s): Corpses; Soldiers IN AN ANATOMY LABORATORY, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: Over our bench in the dissecting-room Last Line: "alive or dead." Subject(s): Beauty; Corpses; Death; Science; Cadavers; Dead, The; Scientists IN STATE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it the martins or katydids? Last Line: To know that she loves me now! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Love; Cadavers; Dead, The LAST RIGHTS IN IJEBU, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here custom requires Last Line: To their graves with choirs Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Corpses; Death LEARNING ANATOMY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: My son must learn the bones of the body, their articulations Last Line: Crumble into dust, bones pass time in the urn of earth Subject(s): Bones; Corpses; Skeletons LEAST CORPSE, by ANGEL GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Only a few inches of him died Last Line: Which was just a fragment %of the totality of his hope Subject(s): Corpses LEAVINGS, by DEENA POSY METZGER Poem Source First Line: I want what is left Last Line: And we will have rain, %and begin again Subject(s): Absence; Corpses; Death; Skeletons LENINGRAD CEMETERY, WINTER OF 1941, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That winter, the dead could not be buried Subject(s): Corpses; Leningrad, Siege Of (1941); Cadavers LENINGRAD CEMETERY, WINTER OF 1941, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That winter, the dead could not be buried Last Line: Even to the icy winter, and the siege Subject(s): Corpses; Leningrad, Siege Of (1941) MASS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of the battle Last Line: Embraced the first man; started to walk Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Heroism; Toledo, Spain MATHEW BRADY ARRANGING THE BODIES, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a mountain flat with snow Subject(s): War; Corpses; Cadavers MIKLOS RADNOTI, by HAYAN CHARARA Poem Source First Line: Corpse #12 at the unmarked grave Last Line: This was cleaned and dried in the sun Subject(s): Cemeteries; Corpses; Death MONUMENTAL, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I have ceased to rant and rave, and Last Line: Silent sea, a three-foot slab of slippery elm is plenty good enough for me. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Corpses; Death; Monuments; Stones; Graveyards; Cadavers; Dead, The; Granite; Rocks MR. WHAT'S-HIS-NAME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They called him mr. What's-his-name Last Line: I'll ask for mr. What's-his-name. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Men; Cadavers; Dead, The MY FATHER'S BODY, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First they take it away, Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Fathers; Corpses; Funerals; Cremation; Cadavers; Burials NIGHT JOURNEY, by GREGORY ORR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I leave the house Last Line: Bursts into flame Subject(s): Farewell; Corpses NOT JUST ANY DEATH, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But the kind that comes to the lonely %like a reunion Last Line: Who entered death with anticipation Subject(s): Cemeteries; Corpses; Death; Graves; Solitude NOTES ON THE MOVING OF A CORPSE, by MIRKO LAUER Poem Source First Line: The young latin-americans silently follow the burial Last Line: The coffee, the friend, and the tool of work Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Funerals; Peru OBEDIENCE OF THE CORPSE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The midwife puts a rag in the dead woman's hand Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Corpses; Mothers; Stillbirth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Cadavers; Death - Childbirth OBEDIENCE OF THE CORPSE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The midwife puts a rag in the dead woman's hand Last Line: It's beautiful she thinks- %snow nobody has walked on Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Corpses; Mothers; Stillbirth OLD APPLE TREES, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like battered old mill hands, they stand in the orchard Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Apple Trees; Corpses; Detroit, Michigan; Orchards; Trees; Cadavers OLD APPLE TREES, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like battered old mill hands, they stand in the orchard Last Line: It seemed better that we kept alive Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Apple Trees; Corpses; Detroit, Michigan; Orchards; Trees ON A CORPSE, by PAUL FLEMING Poem Source First Line: Thin mist when the winds are swift Last Line: All is nothing: you, its glass Subject(s): Corpses ON SEEING A CHILD BLUSH ON HIS FIRST VIEW OF A CORPSE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis good our earliest sympathies to trace Last Line: Saw but an alien footmark and was sad! Subject(s): Children; Corpses; Childhood; Cadavers ON THE TURNING UP OF UNIDENTIFIED BLACK FEMALE CORPSES, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mowing his three acres with a tractor Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Corpses; Cadavers ON THE TURNING UP OF UNIDENTIFIED BLACK FEMALE CORPSES, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mowing his three acres with a tractor Last Line: That digs me up with this pen %and turns my sad black face to the light Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Corpses ORDER OF THE DEAD, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dead in other lands are settled Last Line: They went away with a sign of great wrong Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Corpses; Death; Funerals ORTHODOXIES 1, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: His only side -- his face -- to be talked about: the space Last Line: The jew of malta. I took shelter in a coffin Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Graves; Love; Relationships PASSING AT NEW YEAR, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now the white sheet he objected to Last Line: A white sheet spread over his face Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Corpses PATIENCE, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: With drooping head sweet patience sighs and sees Last Line: And peace return to earth on shining wing. Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Graves; Cadavers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones PHOTO AFTER POGROM, by MINA LOY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arrangement by rage / of human rubble Last Line: Corpses are virgins Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): Pogroms; Corpses QUICK AND DEAD, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the trouble and strife of life set free Last Line: "would that I were alive!"" he said." Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Cadavers; Dead, The ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: PALSGRAVINE JUTTA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The palsgravine jutta, in bark so light Last Line: So sadly are floating the corpses! Subject(s): Corpses; Rhine (river), Europe; Cadavers ROMANTICISM, by DAVID BAKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is to emerson I have turned now Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Death - Wives; Loss; Corpses; Cadavers SINERA CEMETERY: 15, by SALVADOR ESPRIU Poem Source First Line: The bells' cold, slow ringing Last Line: All the afternoon's pathways Subject(s): Cold; Corpses; Death SLEEP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The city sleeps; the fierce metallic roar Last Line: They sleep. Subject(s): Cities; Corpses; Dreams; Moon; Sleep; Urban Life; Cadavers; Nightmares SONG OF RENEWAL: 2, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked the fields when morning freshened Last Line: "and ruined spring renews her flower and anxious eyes are once more glad." Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Fields; Memory; Cadavers; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas STALIN'S LIBRARY CARD: 4. IS RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD POSSIBLE?, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Against the table the cadaver thrashes: its blue arms quiver Last Line: Its own suttee. The corpse has the final word Subject(s): Books; Corpses; Lazarus; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953) STANZAS, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sleep in peace when life is fled Last Line: And stars behold our bones again. Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Fort George, Battle Of (1813); Graves; New York City; Skeletons; Cadavers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple STATEMENT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Durable is flesh when young Last Line: Discourse on all it would not tell. Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Grief; Cadavers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THAW, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The empty mocking bird nests Subject(s): Corpses; Death - Children; Cadavers; Death - Babies THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#1): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man can balance a glass of water on his head without trembling Subject(s): Bodies; Corpses; Death; Cadavers; Dead, The THE CORPSES (1), by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are unhappy in this shut down Last Line: Slippery look. And even a corpse can be a disguise Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Cadavers; Dead, The THE DEAD LIEBNECHT, by RUDOLF LEONHARDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All through the city lies the corpse of him Last Line: To smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Leonhard, Rudolf Subject(s): Corpses; Cadavers THE FIRST FUNERAL, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whole field was so smelly; / we smelt the poor dog first Last Line: And said: 'poor dog, amen!' Subject(s): Animals; Corpses; Dogs; World War I; Cadavers; First World War THE GRAVE-YARD AT SIPPICAN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Come to this spot among the rocks and pines Last Line: To call her crying children to her breast. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Corpses; Death; Graves; Poetry & Poets; Graveyards; Cadavers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE HEARSE SONG (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The old grey hearse goes rolling by Last Line: And you look like hell when they're through with you Subject(s): Corpses;funerals;soldiers; Cadavers;burials THE IMAM BARA: 2, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come from this tomb of shadows Last Line: Ali! Hassan! Hussain! Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Graves; Mourning; Silence; Cadavers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement THE LIVE CONSCIENCE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man lay beneath the mold Last Line: And god folds up the sky! Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Ghosts; Immortality; Supernatural; Cadavers; Dead, The THE PUNISHED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not they who know the awful gibbet's anguish Last Line: And make a nightmare of the solitude. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Corpses; Graves; Punishment; Sin; Cadavers; Tombs; Tombstones THE SHAPE OF THE CORONER, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the morn Last Line: In a parlor of day. Subject(s): Corpses; Embalming; Cadavers THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE VAMPYRE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found a corpse, with golden hair Last Line: From perdition made so fair? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Corpses; Italy; Travel; Cadavers; Italians; Journeys; Trips THERE'S SOMETHING QUIETER THAN SLEEP, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Remark that birds have fled! Subject(s): Corpses THREE SONGS FOR CADAVER: 1, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cadaver's a box of cold meat Last Line: And the scholar has opened him wide Subject(s): Corpses THREE SONGS FOR CADAVER: 2, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh where is the soul in the meat? Last Line: And what of the stuff of our wish? Subject(s): Corpses THREE SONGS FOR CADAVER: 3, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At that supper the paraclete Last Line: The feast, and the feeder are one Subject(s): Christianity; Corpses TWO VIEWS OF A CADAVER ROOM: 1, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day she visited the dissecting room Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Corpses; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Cadavers TWO VIEWS OF A CADAVER ROOM: 1, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day she visited the dissecting room Last Line: In their jars the snail-nosed babies moon and glow. %he hands her the cut-out heart like a cracked h Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Corpses TWO VIEWS OF A CADAVER ROOM: 2, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In brueghel's panorama of smoke and slaughter Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Corpses; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Cadavers TWO VIEWS OF A CADAVER ROOM: 2, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In brueghel's panorama of smoke and slaughter Last Line: Yet desolation, stalled in paint, spares the little country %foolish, delicate, in the lower right-h Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Corpses TWO, SELS, by DANE ZAJC Poem Source First Line: The ice of her body melts %under his hands Last Line: And the cold water falling across the dam Subject(s): Cold; Corpses; Death; Graves; Silence VIEWING THE BODY, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers like a gangster's funeral Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Corpses WASHING THE DEAD, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two mortuary hands, under the red glare Last Line: Lay sleeping beyond the reach of dreams Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Corpses; Death WHAT A DEAD MAN SAID, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear what a dead man said to me Last Line: That the voice of the dead man spoke to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Corpses; Flowers; Roses; Secrets; Cadavers WHEN I DIE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Of this dream which is so diaphanous %and so real Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Peace WHERE CORPSE-LIGHT, FR. THE PIRATE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where corpse-light Last Line: There shall corpse lie stiff and stark Subject(s): Corpses WILLIE THE MINER, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Ghastly and strange was the relic found Last Line: Standing still with her lover dead! Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mines And Miners; Youth; Cadavers; Dead, The WORDS TO AN APPRENTICE MORITICIAN, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How now, even though she's nude, she keeps Last Line: Let them glimpse someone familiar %holding her breath, an image that could last Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Corpses; Morticians YOU COULD TELL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She looked at the corpse laid out in the bed Last Line: He's just back from his holiday,' she said. Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Wakes |
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