|
|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOSS, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poet's Biography First Line: She said: 'let my body be burned!' Last Line: Longed to lie by his side in her death. Subject(s): Love - Complaints | |||
She said: "Let my body be burned!" Her beautiful body be burned! -- The body lips burned to kiss, Let flames devour. The head no empress could match, The heart so true to love, Silent to woe, still to wrong, Consumed in flame. I weep not now at her death. I weep that no lover had filled The need of her heart, so that she Longed to lie by his side in her death. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TALKING RICHARD WILSON BLUES, BY RICHARD CLAY WILSON by DENIS JOHNSON THE BRIDGE by ALEXANDER ANDERSON THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD MISGIVINGS by WILLIAM MATTHEWS THROUGH AGONY: 1 by CLAUDE MCKAY HEMATITE HEIRLOOM LIVES ON (MAYBE DECEMBER 1980) by ALICE NOTLEY QUICK AND BITTER by YEHUDA AMICHAI A CALL TO PRAYER by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT |
| |