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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FUNERAL OF ANTONIO GIANNO, by STIRLING BOWEN First Line: Above the fruit store down on biddle street Last Line: The devastation of the last descent! Subject(s): Funerals; Burials | |||
Above the fruit store down on Biddle street, Where he found humble solace and a rest From that unwritten law whose final test Predestined him for vengeance's winding sheet -- In that now empty chamber, just the sweet Faint scent of flowers where each parting guest Gave springtime's tribute to the dispossessed, A memory and fragrance of defeat! As guardians at that dark door where came The cortege, tapers with their glow half-spent On shadow fade and finger with a flame. And down the dim worn stairway, trampled, bent, Crushed petals, with their blood upon his name -- The devastation of the last descent! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FUNERAL SERMON by ANDREW HUDGINS RETURN FROM DELHI by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE SCATTERING OF EVAN JONES'S ASHES by GALWAY KINNELL BROWNING'S FUNERAL by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL |
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