Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN THE OLD GRAVEYARD, PRINCETON, by FRANCIS CHARLES MACDONALD First Line: Now to this quiet place the living come Last Line: "leave us at greater distance every day . . ." Subject(s): Cemeteries; Princeton, New Jersey; Graveyards | ||||||||
Now to this quiet place the living come To make their question of the faithful dead. Eager each name and epitaph is read; And many a deed recorded, like the drum Before a battle, stirs the blood, and dumb White marble speaks for spirits long since fled. "'I saved the state," and "I for freedom bled," "I brought the word of God," some say; and some In humbler fashion served the lives of men. But all of them have this as well to say: "Let not our limits hold your ventures back! Know that we came beyond the rest; and then With higher aim upon the forward track Leave us at greater distance every day . . ." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...POEM FOR MY TWENTIETH BIRTHDAY by KENNETH KOCH THERE IS ALWAYS A LITTLE WIND by TED KOOSER JEWISH GRAVEYARDS, ITALY by PHILIP LEVINE SAILING HOME FROM RAPALLO by ROBERT LOWELL THE HILL ABOVE THE MINE by MALCOLM COWLEY CONTRA MORTEM: THE NOTHING II by HAYDEN CARRUTH |
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