Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ELEGY FOR A LITTLE GIRL BURNED BENEATH OAK TREES, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY


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ELEGY FOR A LITTLE GIRL BURNED BENEATH OAK TREES, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If slender feet would care to go
Last Line: Nor keep her feet still.
Subject(s): Death; Girls; Oak Trees; Dead, The


If slender feet would care to go
Where old and silent oaks have dropped
Acorns in the live-forever leaves,
Their steps would be stopped.

But while she sleeps there is the sound
Of falling acorns overhead,
Something like summer running on the ground
To entertain the dead.

And there is pleasanter company,
As yellow grasses on a hill,
But she would never sleep in such a place
Nor keep her feet still.





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