PRELUDE THEY set me down beside the sea And underneath the sky: The sea sang and the sky sang— And so did I. INTERLUDE As petals fall like poems from the rose, My verses fast are falling from my heart; And when the last has fallen and the snows Have covered up its secret—Life, we part. POSTLUDE When I am dead and can no longer sing, Bury me by the wide eternal sea— Where I can hear the salt winds whispering, And have the cool waves washing over me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...YOUTH PENETRANT by CONRAD AIKEN IN EQUAL SACRIFICE by ROBERT FROST CORPORATE ENTITY by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH TWO POEMS FROM THE WAR: 1 by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH TOWARD THE GULF; DEDICATED TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |