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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEVEN SONNETS ON THE THOUGHT OF DEATH: 2, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That there are better things within the womb Last Line: It troubles us that this should be the whole. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The | |||
THAT there are better things within the womb Of Nature than to our unworthy view She grants for a possession, may be true: The cycle of the birthplace and the tomb Fulfils at least the order and the doom Of earth, that has not ordinance to do More than to withdraw and to renew, To show one moment and the next resume: The law that we return from whence we came, May for the flowers, beasts, and most men remain; If for ourselves, we ask not nor complain: But for a being that demands the name We highest deem -- a Person and a Soul -- It troubles us that this should be the whole. | 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 WITH WHOM IS NO VARIABLENESS, NEITHER SHADOW OF TURNING' by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH |
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