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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN THE SHADOWS: 2, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poet's Biography First Line: Whom the gods love die young.' the thought is old Last Line: Hymn, o ye mourners! Hail immortal youth auroral! Variant Title(s): I Die, Being Young Subject(s): Death; Youth; Dead, The | |||
"Whom the gods love die young." The thought is old; And yet it soothed the sweet Athenian mind. I take it with all pleasure, overbold, Perhaps, yet to its virtue much inclined By an inherent love for what is fair. This is the utter poetry of woe -- That the bright-flashing gods should cure despair By love, and make youth precious here below. I die, being young; and, dying, could become A pagan, with the tender Grecian trust. Let death, the fell anatomy, benumb The hand that writes, and fill my mouth with dust, -- Chant no funeral theme, but, with a choral Hymn, O ye mourners! hail immortal youth auroral! | 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 IN THE SHADOWS: 19 by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) |
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