Our friends in the Courts of Peace we keep, The friends we lose are the living; The loved ones, wrapped in dreamless sleep, Are ours beyond misgiving. A hasty word, a broken vow, A rival's base endeavor, -- Such things can never part us now, We are joined by death forever. So I mourn no more beside the graves, Whose soft turf rounds above them; It is life that wrecks, it is death that saves And lets us always love them. Why wish them back in a world of strife, Where feuds old friendships sever? The love that might have failed in life, Through death is ours forever. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. KESSLER by EDGAR LEE MASTERS LETTER TO JOSEPH WARREN by ROBERT FROST AFTERGLOW by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON DIVIDE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON SURFACES AND MASKS; 30 by CLARENCE MAJOR GOLDWING MOTH by CARL SANDBURG |