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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHAT OF THE DARKNESS?; TO THE HAPPY DEAD PEOPLE, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poet's Biography First Line: What of the darkness? Is it very fair? Last Line: What of the darkness? Is it very fair? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The | |||
What of the darkness? Is it very fair? Are there great calms? and find we silence there? Like soft-shut lilies, all your faces glow With some strange peace our faces never know, With some strange faith our faces never dare -- Dwells it in Darkness? Do you find it there? Is it a Bosom where tired heads may lie? Is it a Mouth to kiss our weeping dry? Is it a Hand to still the pulse's leap? Is it a Voice that holds the runes of sleep? Day shows us not such comfort anywhere -- Dwells it in darkness? Do ye find it there? Out of the Day's deceiving light we call -- Day that shows man so great, and God so small, That hides the stars, and magnifies the grass -- O is the Darkness too a lying glass! Or undistracted, do you find truth there? What of the Darkness? Is it very fair? | 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 BALLAD OF LONDON (TO H.W. MASSINGHAM) by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE |
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