Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AFTER DEATH, by SARA TEASDALE Poet's Biography First Line: Now while my lips are living Last Line: And then you could not hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The | ||||||||
Now while my lips are living Their words must stay unsaid, And will my soul remember To speak when I am dead? Yet if my soul remembered You would not heed it, dear, For now you must not listen, And then you could not hear. | Other Poems of Interest...DOUBLE ELEGY by MICHAEL S. HARPER A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND |
|