Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HER LAST POEM, by ALICE CARY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth with its dark and dreadful ills Last Line: O death, where is thy sting! Variant Title(s): A Dying Hymn;her Last Verses Subject(s): Death; Dead, The | ||||||||
EARTH, with its dark and dreadful ills, Recedes, and fades away; Lift up your heads, ye heavenly hills; Ye gates of death, give way! My soul is full of whispered song; My blindness is my sight; The shadows that I feared so long Are all alive with light. The while my pulses faintly beat, My faith doth so abound, I feel grow firm beneath my feet The green immortal ground. That faith to me a courage gives, Low as the grave, to go; I know that my Redeemer lives: That I shall live, I know. The palace walls I almost see, Where dwells my Lord and King; O grave, where is thy victory! O death, where is thy sting! | 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 A SPINSTER'S STINT by ALICE CARY |
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