Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON A GRAVE IN THE FOREST, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, gentle stranger. Here lies one asleep Last Line: The gentlest kindliest creature made by god. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones | ||||||||
HUSH, gentle stranger. Here lies one asleep In the tall grass whom we must not awaken. For see, the wildest winds hush here and keep Silence for her and not a leaf is shaken, Lest she should wake and find herself forsaken. Close to my feet aweary did she creep And slept, and she is sweetly still mistaken Deeming I stand by her and watch her sleep. Hush, gentle stranger! One as gentle lies In this poor grave, and weep before you go For one who knew no weeping, yet abode Among our human sorrows and was wise With tenderer sympathy than tears can show, The gentlest kindliest creature made by God. | 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 ESTHER; A YOUNG MAN'S TRAGEDY: 50 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT ESTHER; A YOUNG MAN'S TRAGEDY: 51 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 110. THE OASIS OF SIDI KHALED by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |
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