Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOURNING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas my brother! The cry of the mourners of old Last Line: Alas my brother! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Roundels; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness | ||||||||
ALAS my brother! the cry of the mourners of old That cried on each other All crying aloud on the dead as the death-note rolled, Alas my brother! As flashes of dawn that mists from an east wind smother With fold upon fold, The past years gleam that linked us one with another. Time sunders hearts as of brethren whose eyes behold No more their mother: But a cry sounds yet from the shrine whose fires wax cold, Alas my brother! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONOMA FIRE by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS by JOHN HOLLANDER WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE by JUNE JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 by JAMES JOYCE DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS by LEONIE ADAMS A BALLAD OF DEATH by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE |
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