Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A DEAD STUDENT, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poet's Biography First Line: I knew not your thoughts, nor regarded your books Last Line: Ere the books and the thought be forgot! Subject(s): Death; Praise; Writing & Writers; Dead, The | ||||||||
I knew not your thoughts, nor regarded your books, But now you are dead There is not a thought of your thinking, a book of your reading, That my heart hath not known and read! Alas, for the silenced lips and the dear closed eyes! They answer me not Who am seeking for clues and for glosses, traditions and meanings, Ere the books and the thought be forgot! | 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 EPITAPHIUM CITHARISTRIAE by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR |
|