Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NO MUSIC, by C. E. SHUFORD


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NO MUSIC, by                    
First Line: Death and no music
Last Line: Death and no music.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shuford, Gene
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


Death and no music
But wind dying,
The dust of walls,
The long halls
Of the once immortal.

Here are the skulls,
The teeth of an ass,
The long jawbone
Of one whose empire was the world.
Hail! Caesar!
My heel salutes thee.

Strike fire, strike storm:
Steel and forgotten trumpets.
And the stink of the legionaries
And Keats coughing blood upon his pillow.
And Death, O Mother Death,
Come quietly, come gently,
And in this street, long and empty,
Let me walk silently
Alone, unheard, unremembered.

Death and no music.





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