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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LINES TO A LADY, by DJUNA BARNES First Line: Lay her under the rusty grass Last Line: Within the grain. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness | |||
Lay her under the rusty grass, With her two eyes heavy and blind and done; Her two hands crossed beneath her breast One on one. Lay her out in the paling eve, With its sudden tears and white birch-trees; And let her passing seem to be One with these. Close her out of this hour of grief, And casting the earth on her, like a breath, Sew her tenderly, that she may Reap her death! And close her eyes, close, close her lips, For still, too still is her smitten tongue; Her hour's over, her breath has passed, And her song is sung. Lay her under the wild red grass In the fields death-tossed and bowed with rain; And let her silence seem to move Within the grain. | 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 TO THE DEAD FAVOURITE OF LIU CH'E by DJUNA BARNES |
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