Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BROODING, by JAN SVATOPLUK MACHAR Poet's Biography First Line: A few more years, and they will drag my bones Last Line: And cast the livid skull away from sight! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The | ||||||||
A few more years -- and they will drag my bones, And let them in a charnel-house be shed, After my melodies have hushed their tones, Mute as a grove, whence nightingales have fled. Will some one then the empty skull upraise Upon his trembling hand, with Hamlet's view Amid the cradle of my dreams to gaze, That has to nature paid its final due? Will he mark out each divers track of thought, The irk of love, and all the anguish there? And will the pallid jawbone tell him aught Of laurels that this brow was fain to wear? And will he wonder where the soul may lag That once urged on its wings to starward flight? Pooh! He will mumble forth some pious tag, And cast the livid skull away from sight! | 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 DURER PAINTING THE SAVIOUR'S HEAD by JAN SVATOPLUK MACHAR A BALLAD OF WHITECHAPEL by ISAAC ROSENBERG THE STORY OF AUGUSTUS WHO WOULD NOT HAVE ANY SOUP by HEINRICH HOFFMANN |
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