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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN MEMORIAM, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poet's Biography First Line: Half-mast the flag by sweet st. Mary's shore Last Line: God's loveliest angel sits beside me here. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The | |||
HALF-MAST the flag by sweet St. Mary's shore, Half-mast the schooner in Port Erin bay: Death has been with us in the night, of prey Insatiate from a fold thrice robbed before; And now he climbs to me upon the hoar And ruinous rock, and shrouds the gladsome day With sullen gloom, nor any word will say That might to strength my sinking heart restore. Speak, Death, O, speak! What high command restrains The dark disclosure? Is it thine own will Thou workest, I adjure thee, shape of fear? Then from the awful face a shadow wanes, And, clad in robes of light unspeakable, God's loveliest angel sits beside me here. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND A SERMON AT CLEVEDON; GOOD FRIDAY by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN |
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