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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THESE THINGS, by JUAN HOLGUIN First Line: These things: bread and meat, and our daily desire for them Last Line: And this: or forgetting. | |||
These things: Bread and meat, and our daily desire for them, Are life. And this: Holding a flower by the stem until it dies, but not seeing it die. And this: Or forgetting. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OBLIVION OF DEATH by JUAN HOLGUIN WHY THUS LONGING by HARRIET WINSLOW SEWALL THE WORLD'S WAY by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH A NAMELESS EPITAPH (2) by MATTHEW ARNOLD TROPIC NIGHTFALL by ROBERT AVRETT BLUEBEARD by RUTH FITCH BARLETT ELECTRIC LIGHT-VERSE by L. ALLEN BECK DIRGE FOR A YOUNG MAIDEN by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |
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