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THE QUAKER GRAVEYARD, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poet's Biography First Line: Four straight brick walls, severely plain Last Line: In gentlest mockery. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Friends, Religious Society Of; Graveyards; Dead, The; Quakers | ||||||||
Four straight brick walls, severely plain, A quiet city square surround; A level space of nameless graves, -- The Quakers' burial-ground. In gown of gray, or coat of drab, They trod the common ways of life, With passions held in sternest leash, And hearts that knew not strife. To yon grim meeting-house they fared, With thoughts as sober as their speech, To voiceless prayer, to songless praise, To hear the elders preach. Through quiet lengths of days they came, With scarce a change to this repose; Of all life's loveliness they took The thorn without the rose. But in the porch and o'er the graves, Glad rings the southward robin's glee, And sparrows fill the autumn air With merry mutiny; While on the graves of drab and gray The red and gold of autumn lie, And wilful Nature decks the sod In gentlest mockery. | Other Poems of Interest...THE QUAKER WIDOW by BAYARD TAYLOR CASSANDRA SOUTHWICK; 1658 by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER FIRST-DAY THOUGHTS by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER DRAB BONNETS by BERNARD BARTON THE QUAKER POET; VERSES ON SEEING MYSELF SO DESIGNATED by BERNARD BARTON VERSES SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN IN A BURIAL-GROUND .. SOCIETY OF FRIENDS by BERNARD BARTON A POETICAL VERSION OF A LETTER ON RESIGNATION, FROM JACOB BEHMEN by JOHN BYROM FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 1 by JOHN BYROM FOR THE DUE IMPROVEMENT OF A FUNERAL SOLEMNITY by JOHN BYROM A DECANTER OF MADEIRA, AGED 86, TO GEORGE BANCROFT, AGED 86 by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL HOW THE CUMBERLAND WENT DOWN [MARCH 8, 1862] by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL |
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