Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SMALL DEATH TO LAUGH, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE


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SMALL DEATH TO LAUGH, by                    
First Line: Away, airy comber of comets!
Last Line: Away, airy comber of comets!
Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


Away, airy comber of comets!
The grass in the wind will be your hair;
From your gaping eyes will-o'-wisps
Will rise, prisoners in the poor heads . . .

Graveyard flowers called Little Flirts
Will overgrow your earthy laugh . . .
And forget-me-nots, those flowers of dungeons forgot . . .

Make light of it: poets' coffins
Are but toys to pallbearers,
Violin cases with an empty sound . . .
They'll think you're dead-the bourgeois are dull-
Away, airy comber of comets!





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