Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BEAUTIFUL DEATH, by JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING Poet's Biography First Line: O painter, paint me autumn woods when now Last Line: And all the flowers close wrapped and hidden lay. Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Paintings And Painters; Dead, The | ||||||||
O PAINTER, paint me autumn woods when now Yellow and green, russet and gold and red, And purple and brown, and all the glory shed Upon the world makes earth like heaven's brow; When every tree and every separate bough Glow like the sunset skies when day has fled, And mellow light with sense of peace is wed, While grateful hearts their love to God avow. O paint me this, that I may ever see The vision fair, where life in its decay Speaks not of death, but immortality; More richly glowing on its dying day Than when spring sang of beauty yet to be, And all the flowers close wrapped and hidden lay. | 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 BELIEVE AND TAKE HEART by JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING |
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