Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BURIED TODAY, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poet's Biography First Line: Buried to-day. / when the soft green buds are bursting out Last Line: Trust him, and go your way. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials | ||||||||
BURIED to-day. When the soft green buds are bursting out, And up on the south wind comes a shout Of village boys and girls at play In the mild spring evening gray. Taken away Sturdy of heart and stout of limb, From eyes that drew half their light from him, And put low, low, underneath the clay, In his spring -- on this spring day. Passes away All the pride of boy-life begun, All the hope of life yet to run; Who dares to question when One saith "Nay." Murmur not -- only pray. Enters to-day Another body in churchyard sod, Another soul on the life in God. HIS Christ was buried -- and lives alway: Trust Him, and go your way. | 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 FALLING ASLEEP OVER THE AENEID by ROBERT LOWELL MY FATHER'S BODY by WILLIAM MATTHEWS BY THE ALMA RIVER by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK DOUGLAS, DOUGLAS, TENDER AND TRUE by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK |
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