Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN MEMORIAM, by PERCY MACKAYE Poet's Biography First Line: Her gentle spirit passed with peace Last Line: The anguish of the poor. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Death; Memory; Peace; Wilson, Ellen Louise Axson (d. 1914); Dead, The | ||||||||
HER gentle spirit passed with Peace With Peace out of a world at war Racked by the old earth-agonies Of kaiser, king and czar, Where Bear and Lion crouch in lair To rend the iron Eagle's flesh And viewless engines of the air Spin wide their lightning mesh, And darkly kaiser, czar and king With awful thunders stalk their prey. Yet Peace, that moves with silent wing, Is mightier than they. And she our lady who has passed And Peace were sisters: They are gone Together through time's holocaust To blaze a bloodless dawn. How otherwise the royal die Whose power is throned on rolling drums! Her monument of royalty Is builded in the slums: Her latest prayer, transformed to law, Shall more than monarch's vow endure, Assuaging there, with loving awe, The anguish of the poor. | 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 A CHILD AT THE WICKET by PERCY MACKAYE |
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