Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DEAD, by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE Poet's Biography First Line: How great unto the living seem the dead! Last Line: And all is what imagination dreams. Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Dead, The | ||||||||
How great unto the living seem the dead! How sacred, solemn; how heroic grown; How vast and vague, as they obscurely tread The shadowy confines of the dim unknown! For they have met the monster that we dread, Have learned the secret not to mortal shown. E'en as gigantic shadows on the wall The spirit of the daunted child amaze, So on us thoughts of the departed fall, And with phantasma fill our gloomy gaze. Awe and deep wonder lend the living lines, And hope and ecstasy the borrowed beams; While fitful fancy the full form divines, And all is what imagination dreams. | 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 LO! I AM SAUL, FR. SAUL by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE |
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