Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, OBITUARY, by CHARLES TRUEMAN LANHAM


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First Line: We made our love a pretty thing
Last Line: So quietly it turned and died.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lanham, C. T.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Dead, The


We made our love a pretty thing
Of panzied words and peacock thought
And tied it with a crimson string
Meticulously bought.

Most carefully we chose its food
And gave it days of sun and air
Shielding it from things not good . . .
Rain and fog and grey despair.

Alas we never can explain
The rose thorn in its pretty side;
We really think it felt no pain
So quietly it turned and died.





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