Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEATH THE LEVELLER, by MENANDER Poet's Biography First Line: If you with your true self would be acquainted Last Line: Look to the graves -- and make your own acquaintance. Variant Title(s): Here Are Sands, Ignoble Things Subject(s): Death; Dead, The | ||||||||
IF you with your true self would be acquainted, look at the grave-stones as you travel past. Bones lie beneath and the light-drifting dust of kings and despots, of the skilled and wise, of men who gloried in their birth or riches or reputation won or beauty of body -- then all was gone before the assault of Time. One place of death men share, and share alike. Look to the graves -- and make your own acquaintance. | 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 |
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