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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A PRAYER, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poet's Biography
First Line: On some triumphant morning when the sky
Last Line: —o! Life!—shall dare to think of me as dead.
Subject(s): Death; Prayer; Dead, The
First Line: On some triumphant morning when the sky
Last Line: —o! Life!—shall dare to think of me as dead.
Subject(s): Death; Prayer; Dead, The
ON some triumphant morning when the sky
Is like an oriflame and the wind's breath
Like Victory—then is the time to die:—
Oh! when I'm mad with joy come to me, Death!
Not when the heart beats mournfully beneath
A drizzle of grey moments, drenched and tame;—
Quench not, I pray, the half-extinguished flame,
Break not the sword that rusts within the sheath!
This rapture's mine. I'll hold it as a glass
Catches, close-burning to a point, the sun:—
Let cowards make happiness their daily bread!
I'll fade into delight as at High Mass
Music and incense mingle and not one
—O! Life!—shall dare to think of me as dead.
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