Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LEVELLED CHURCHYARD, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O passenger, pray list and catch / our sighs and piteous groans Last Line: Deliver us o lord! Amen!' | ||||||||
'O PASSENGER, pray list and catch Our sighs and piteous groans, Half stifled in this jumbled patch Of wrenched memorial stones! 'We late-lamented, resting here, Are mixed to human jam, And each to each exclaims in fear, "I know not which I am!" 'The wicked people have annexed The verses on the good; A roaring drunkard sports the text Teetotal Tommy should! 'Where we are huddled none can trace, And if our names remain, They pave some path or porch or place Where we have never lain! 'Here's not a modest maiden elf But dreads the final Trumpet, Lest half of her should rise herself, And half some sturdy strumpet! 'From restorations of Thy fane, From smoothings of Thy sward, From zealous Churchmen's pick and plane Deliver us O Lord! Amen!' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MEN WHO MARCH AWAY' (SONG OF THE SOLDIERS) by THOMAS HARDY A BROKEN APPOINTMENT by THOMAS HARDY A CHRISTMAS GHOST-STORY; CHRISTMAS-EVE 1899 by THOMAS HARDY A THOUGHT IN TWO MOODS by THOMAS HARDY A THUNDERSTORM IN TOWN by THOMAS HARDY A TRAMPWOMAN'S TRAGEDY by THOMAS HARDY A WIFE IN LONDON by THOMAS HARDY ACCORDING TO THE MIGHTY WORKING by THOMAS HARDY |
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