Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PACT, by ALFRED NOYES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have no pact to sign - our peaceful dead Last Line: Our dead will rise again. Subject(s): Death; Religion; War; Dead, The; Theology | ||||||||
They have no pact to signour peaceful dead. Pacts are for trembling hands and heads grown gray. Ten million graves record what youth has said, And cannot now unsay. They have no pact to signour quiet dead Whose eyes in that eternal peace are drowned. Age doubts and wakes, and asks if night be fled; But youth sleeps sound. They have no pact to signour faithful dead. Theirs is a deeper pledge, unseen, unheard, Sealed in the dark, unwritten, sealed with red; And they will keep their word. They have no pact to signour happy dead. But if, O God, if WE should sign in vain, With dreadful eyes, out of each narrow bed, Our dead will rise again. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY MOUNTAIN LAUREL by ALFRED NOYES |
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