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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
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 LISBON PACKET by GEORGE GORDON BYRON
WITCHCRAFT BY A PICTURE by JOHN DONNE
THE HOLY SCRIPTURES (1) by GEORGE HERBERT
OLD POETS by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER
ON MAN by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 3. THE GRAVE BY THE LAKE by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
TO THE GIRL WHO HELPED IN THE WAR by JOSEPHINE DODGE DASKAM BACON