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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
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TO A DECEASED, by THEODOR STORM Poet's Biography
First Line: But this is more than I can bear
Last Line: Are stealing o'er your coffin there.
First Line: But this is more than I can bear
Last Line: Are stealing o'er your coffin there.
But this is more than I can bear,
That still the laughing sun is bright,
As in the days when you were there,
That clocks are striking, unaware,
And mark the change of day and night--
That we, as twilight dims the air,
Assemble when the day is done,
And that the place where stood your chair
Already many others share,
And that you seem thus missed by none;
When meanwhile, from the gate below,
The narrow strips of moonlight spare
Into your vault down deeply go,
And with a ghostly pallid glow
Are stealing o'er your coffin there.
Other Poems of Interest...
TO HIS DEAD WIFE by THEODOR STORM
THE SHRUBBERY, WRITTEN IN A TIME OF AFFLICTION by WILLIAM COWPER
ELEONORA; A PANEGYRICAL POEM by JOHN DRYDEN
A SONG TO MITHRAS by RUDYARD KIPLING
THE OWL AND THE PUSSY CAT by EDWARD LEAR