Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LAST SCENE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY First Line: Her lily skin, her bronze-red hair Last Line: For all it was so white and fair. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The | ||||||||
HER lily skin, her bronze-red hair Glowed brightly from her dying bed, No wonder that Death coveted A thing so radiantly fair. Her many friends must watch and pray And chafe her hands and soothe her head, And care for her till she be dead. She was forsaken night and day, She was forsaken of her breath, And half forsaken, too, by Death, Who only took her soul away: Her poor, dark soul, unwashed, unfed, And left her body lying there, For all it was so white and fair. | 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 CHILD'S THOUGHTS by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY |
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