Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIFE AND DEATH: 4, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poet's Biography First Line: If at one door stands life to cheat our trust Last Line: Of thunder falls. There is no life beyond? Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life | ||||||||
IF at one door stands life to cheat our trust, And at another, death, to mock because We thought life's promise good; if all that was And is and should be ends in fume and dust -- Then let us live for joy alone -- the rust Of ease encase our minds -- the grader laws Of souls be set aside. Let no man pause To weigh between his virtue and his lust. From first to last life baffles all our hopes Of aught but present bliss. Death waits to mock Our haste to indorse a visionary bond. Let pleasure dance us down earth's sunny slopes, And crown our heads with roses, ere the shock Of thunder falls. There is no life beyond? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IKON: THE HARROWING OF HELL by DENISE LEVERTOV LEEK STREET by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR UNABLE TO FIND by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS 3 by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 1 by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 2 by HAYDEN CARRUTH WRITING IN THE AFTERLIFE by BILLY COLLINS CORRESPONDENCES; HEXAMETERS AND PENTAMETERS by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH |
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