Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MEMORIAL DAY, by EMERETTE H. DUNNING First Line: To all the heart-wounds touched afresh this day Last Line: This eventide. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day | ||||||||
To all the heart-wounds touched afresh this day As on the Soldier's resting place we lay Thy flowers, Christ, in tender memory, Give healing thou, This eventide. And for the sorrowing ones who yet remain, To whom the heart-break and the bitter pain Come like the memory of an old song's sad refrain, Have pity thou, This eventide. For all the losses of the lonely years For all the weight of shed and unshed tears, For all forebodings, and all coming fears, Give quietness, This eventide. By all the flower of youth in battle slain, By all the woman's heritage of pain; The prayer that it may not have been in vain. We leave with thee, This eventide. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MEMORIAL DAY by JOSEPHINE MILES MEMORIAL DAY FOR THE WAR DEAD by YEHUDA AMICHAI MEMORIAL DAY by MICHAEL ANANIA AN ODE ON THE UNVEILING OF THE SHAW MEMORIA BOSTON COMMON, MAY 31, 1897 by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH FREDERICKSBURG by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE DEATH OF GRANT by AMBROSE BIERCE MEMORIAL DAY by WILLIAM E. BROOKS VANQUISHED; ON THE DEATH OF GENERAL GRANT by FRANCIS FISHER BROWNE |
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