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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IF DEATH IS KIND, by SARA TEASDALE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps if death is kind, and there can be returning Last Line: We shall be happy, for the dead are free. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The | |||
Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning, We will come back to earth some fragrant night, And take these lanes to find the sea, and bending Breathe the same honeysuckle, low and white. We will come down at night to these resounding beaches And the long gentle thunder of the sea, Here for a single hour in the wide starlight We shall be happy, for the dead are free. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...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 |
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