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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BURIAL, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine is a body that should die at sea! Last Line: Not wait till I've been dead for a year! Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Funerals; Sea; Burials; Ocean | |||
MINE is a body that should die at sea! And have for a grave, instead of a grave Six feet deep and the length of me, All the water that is under the wave! And terrible fishes to seize my flesh, Such as a living man might fear, And eat me while I am firm and fresh, -- Not wait till I've been dead for a year! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HALL OF OCEAN LIFE by JOHN HOLLANDER JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS BOATS IN A FOG by ROBINSON JEFFERS CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE FIGUREHEAD by LEONIE ADAMS AFTERNOON ON A HILL by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY |
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