Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE DEATH OF AN AGED FRIEND, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poet's Biography First Line: You are not dead -- life has but set you free Last Line: You merely smiled to greet another friend! Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Future Life; Religion; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology | ||||||||
YOU are not deadLife has but set you free! Your years of life were like a lovely song, The last sweet, poignant notes of which, held long, Passed into silence while we listened, we Who loved you, listened still expectantly! And we about you whom you moved among Would feel that grief for you were surely wrong You have but passed beyond where we can see! For us who knew you, dread of Age is past! You took Life, tiptoe, to the very last; It never lost for you its lovely look; You kept your interest in its thrilling book; To you Death came, no conqueror, in the end You merely smiled to greet another friend! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY A DESERTED HOUSE by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY |
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