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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A FUNERAL, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poet's Biography
First Line: In the darkness and chill of the night
Last Line: And her breast was the tomb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L.
Subject(s): Despair; Funerals; Love; Burials
First Line: In the darkness and chill of the night
Last Line: And her breast was the tomb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L.
Subject(s): Despair; Funerals; Love; Burials
IN the darkness and chill of the night,
Not a star overhead,
With a face, oh, hopeless and white,
She buried her dead.
No ritual heard by the bier,
Save a faint, wailing cry, --
The litany low of a tear,
The prayer of a sigh.
And she planted no flowers above
In the silence and gloom;
For he whom she buried was Love,
And her breast was the tomb.
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