Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN MEMORIAM, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poet's Biography First Line: I never shall forget that night Last Line: Combing out your hair. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The | ||||||||
I never shall forget that night -- Mid-April, four years gone: Nor how your eyes were bright, too bright, And how the pavement shone. Death on you now, death on your brow, Death on your eyes so fair, Death with his thin shadow hands Combing out your hair. O eyes long shut and lip to lip Fastened no more to sing: Old winter turned you in his grip And icy blew your spring. Old winter had you be the throat You could not speak to me Save in a low and whispered note As through a shell the sea. Death on you now, death on your brow, Death on your eyes so fair, Death with his thin shadow hands Combing out your hair. | 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 SANTORIN (A LEGEND OF THE AEGEAN) by JAMES ELROY FLECKER |
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