Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO ONE WHO DIED LAST YEAR, by ANNA EMILIA BAGSTAD First Line: What have you learned since then? Do you know all Last Line: Wistful at even with a thought of me? Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The | ||||||||
What have you learned since then? Do you know all The mysteries you pondered once on earth? The grey, unpatterned hit-and-miss of life, Has it design and beauty? Do you smile, As some young god, at our bewilderment? Has youth returned to you? Youth of the keen, light limb and zestful lung, Youth blest with vast forgetfulness of scars, And do you now, the bitterness unlearned, Stand at the portal, an initiate To halls where One more wise than Plato treads? Ah, but the mansions there, do they resound With human footfalls? Do you ever pause, Wistful at even with a thought of me? | 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 ADMIRAL, HAIL! by ANNA EMILIA BAGSTAD |
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