Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, STANZAS FROM A BOOK OF POEMS, by H. THOMPSON RICH


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STANZAS FROM A BOOK OF POEMS, by                    
First Line: They set me down beside the sea
Last Line: And have the cool waves washing over me.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets


PRELUDE

THEY set me down beside the sea
And underneath the sky:
The sea sang and the sky sang—
And so did I.

INTERLUDE

As petals fall like poems from the rose,
My verses fast are falling from my heart;
And when the last has fallen and the snows
Have covered up its secret—Life, we part.

POSTLUDE

When I am dead and can no longer sing,
Bury me by the wide eternal sea—
Where I can hear the salt winds whispering,
And have the cool waves washing over me.





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