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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEATH, by JAMES STEPHENS Poet's Biography
First Line: Slow creatures, slow
Last Line: In the sun!
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
First Line: Slow creatures, slow
Last Line: In the sun!
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
Slow creatures, slow,
Nuzzle and press,
And take their food
In the darkness!
No stir is now
In all that once was all!
No dream; no sound;
No sight; no sense, is there!
Unseen, the beam of the sun!
Unknown, the ring of the light!
Unknown, in the cave!
Unseen, by the slow, slow, hungers!
Naught's left
-- But food!
All else, that was,
Is away!
-- Far away
In the Gleam!
In the Ring!
In the Beam!
In the Sun!
Other Poems of Interest...
DOUBLE ELEGY by MICHAEL S. HARPER
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