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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WINTER BURIAL, by HENRY BELLAMANN Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth, will you be kind to her
Last Line: Next spring?
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Winter; Dead, The; Burials
First Line: Earth, will you be kind to her
Last Line: Next spring?
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Winter; Dead, The; Burials
Earth, will you be kind to her?
I give her back . . .
Will your clumsy ricks and clay
Break her silk and pearl and ivory
To trash? . . .
. . . or shall I see a little creeping flush
of first flowers along that slope
next Spring?
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