![]() |
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE. 6. IN THE CEMETERY, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You see those mothers squabbling there? Last Line: As anything else, to ease your pain!' Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards | |||
'YOU see those mothers squabbling there?' Remarks the man of the cemetery. 'One says in tears, "'Tis mine lies here!" Another, "Nay, mine, you Pharisee!" Another, "How dare you move my flowers And put your own on this grave of ours!" But all their children were laid therein At different times, like sprats in a tin. 'And then the main drain had to cross, And we moved the lot some nights ago, And packed them away in the general foss With hundreds more. But their folks don't know, And as well cry over a new-laid drain As anything else, to ease your pain!' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...POEM FOR MY TWENTIETH BIRTHDAY by KENNETH KOCH THERE IS ALWAYS A LITTLE WIND by TED KOOSER JEWISH GRAVEYARDS, ITALY by PHILIP LEVINE SAILING HOME FROM RAPALLO by ROBERT LOWELL THE HILL ABOVE THE MINE by MALCOLM COWLEY AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
|