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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN MEMORIAM, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poet's Biography First Line: The gates of time swing to: our wisest head Last Line: With the eternal anywhere at home. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The | |||
The gates of time swing to: Our wisest head, Our soundest heart, our loftiest soul is dead. But death like this, crowning a long success, Gives exaltation to our helplessness, Repeating, louder than all vain lament, 'Gainst death itself the one great argument -- Even this: A man so disciplined in truth, In freedom, labor, courtesy, and ruth, So disciplined, amid earth's age-old wars, To see even here the light of all the stars, Must be, wherever God will have him come, With the eternal anywhere at home. | 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 TOM MOONEY by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD TWO LIVES: CONCLUSION. INDIAN SUMMER by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD |
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