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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A CATCH, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once the head is gray Last Line: Deep down under ground. | |||
ONCE the head is gray, And the heart is dead, There's no more to do: Make the man a bed Six foot under ground, There he'll slumber sound. Golden was my hair, And my heart did beat To the viol's voice Like the dancers' feet. Not colder now his blood Who died before the flood. Fair, and fond, and false, Mother, wife, and maid, Never lived a man They have not betrayed. None shall 'scape my mirth But old Mother Earth. Safely housed with her, With no company But my brother Worm, Who will feed on me, I shall slumber sound, Deep down under ground. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONGS by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD THE FLIGHT OF YOUTH by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD A GAZELLE by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD ABRAHAM LINCOLN (2) by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD ADSUM by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD AN OLD SONG REVERSED by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD ARAB SONG by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD BIRDS by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD COLONEL ELLSWORTH by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD MORS ET VITA by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD |
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