Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MAY, AS 1885, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poet's Biography First Line: Sped is our titan? Nay, defer Last Line: With alighieri unto christ Subject(s): Death | ||||||||
Sped is our Titan? Nay, defer The thought of death for such a man! I know he plays at grandfather As in the old days with Georges and Jeanne . I know the bowed and glorious head To-day is silvern in the sun : Some witty word is being said, Some trancing tale is being spun. Mark the*young faces round his chair, Hark, eager voices echoing! He is so dear and debonnaire, Of gray-beards let us crown him king! Ah me, defer it as we may, Defer Death's terror as we will, Our Victor cannot win to-day - Death is your only conqueror still. And now tired eyelids droop in sleep, And the familiar days are sped, We weep not our old friend; we weep In a great darkness the great dead. And we forget the children's ways, The laughing boast, the daily tryst, For he doth pass through heaven's full blaze With Alighieri unto Christ | 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 HOW THE MIRROR LOOKS THIS MORNING by HICOK. BOB NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND EPITAPHIUM CITHARISTRIAE by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR |
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