Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE UNRETURNING, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poet's Biography First Line: If our dead could come back to us Last Line: Gainst all returning. Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology | ||||||||
If our dead could come back to us, Who so desire it, And be as they were before, Would we require it? Would we bid them share again Our weakness, foregoing All their higher blessedness Of being and knowing? For them the triumph is won, The fight completed; Do we wish that the doubtful strife Should be repeated? Would we call them from the calm Of all assurance To the perils that might prove Past their endurance? God is kind, since He will not heed Our bitter yearning, And the gates of heaven are shut 'Gainst all returning. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY A GOOD-BYE by EFFIE WALLER SMITH |
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