Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WINTER BURIAL, by LEROY OLIVER MCLEOD


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WINTER BURIAL, by                    
First Line: Lift - and walk! - they will shut the door for us
Last Line: But her cold lover death was more discerning.
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Loss; Dead, The; Burials


Lift . . . and walk! . . . They will shut the door for us.
That must be his child crying. --
None she ever bore for us.
. . . She was light before for us;
Now a cold lover's weight on hers is lying.

Crunch . . . on snow! . . . Four of us can carry her,
And one can follow weeping.
Only one could marry her;
All of us will bury her . . .
And a cold lover's bed is hers for sleeping.

Lower . . . deep! . . . None of us may lie with her.
We wooed her lips with burning:
Four in turn would try with her;
One would live and die with her; . . .
But her cold lover Death was more discerning.





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