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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SCINTILLA, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poet's Biography First Line: I kissed a kiss in youth Last Line: At a dead man's door. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The | |||
I kissed a kiss in youth Upon a dead man's brow; And that was long ago, -- And I'm a grown man now. It's lain there in the dust, Thirty years and more; -- My lips that set a light At a dead man's door. | 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 A CHRONICLE by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE |
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