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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A CHILD'S GRAVE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poet's Biography
First Line: A little mound with chipped headstone
Last Line: With one white lily keeping watch and ward.
Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones
First Line: A little mound with chipped headstone
Last Line: With one white lily keeping watch and ward.
Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones
A LITTLE mound with chipped headstone,
The grass, ah me! uncut about the sward,
Summer by summer left alone
With one white lily keeping watch and ward.
Other Poems of Interest...
IN THE CREVICE OF TIME by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN
THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES by RANDALL JARRELL
SUBJECTED EARTH by ROBINSON JEFFERS
THE GRAVE OF MRS. HEMANS by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER
THOSE GRAVES IN ROME by LARRY LEVIS
SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MTHE CIRCUIT JUDGE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS
NOT TO BE DWELLED ON by HEATHER MCHUGH
ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE by PAUL MULDOON
ETRUSCAN TOMB by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS