For Death - or rather For the Things 'twould buy - This - put away Life's Opportunity - The Things that Death will buy Are Room - Escape from Circumstances - And a Name - With Gifts of Life How Death's Gifts may compare - We know not - For the Rates - lie Here | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GETTING A PURCHASE by KAREN SWENSON TO MY BOOKSELLER by BEN JONSON A BALLAD OF LONDON (TO H.W. MASSINGHAM) by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE SINCE THOU ART GONE by HENRY VAUGHAN SOUL AND BODY by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE |