Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE GRAVE OF LOVE, by THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK Poet's Biography First Line: I dug, beneath the cypress shade Last Line: Immutable as my regret. Subject(s): Graves; Love; Tombs; Tombstones | ||||||||
I DUG, beneath the cypress shade, What well might seem an elfin's grave; And every pledge in earth I laid, That erst thy false affection gave. I press'd them down the sod beneath; I placed one mossy stone above; And twined the rose's fading wreath Around the sepulchre of love. Frail as thy love, the flowers were dead Ere yet the evening sun was set: But years shall see the cypress spread, Immutable as my regret. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES by RANDALL JARRELL SUBJECTED EARTH by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE GRAVE OF MRS. HEMANS by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER THOSE GRAVES IN ROME by LARRY LEVIS NOT TO BE DWELLED ON by HEATHER MCHUGH ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE by PAUL MULDOON ETRUSCAN TOMB by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR by MARVIN BELL LOVE AND AGE by THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK RICH AND POOR; OR, SAINT AND SINNER by THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK LLYN-Y-DREIDDIAD-VRAWD (THE POOL OF THE DIVING FRIAR) by THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK |
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