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 | ||||||||
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 |
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