Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHAT SHE SAID IN HER TOMB, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, at last, I lie asleep Last Line: For my deaf ears' sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones | ||||||||
NOW, at last, I lie asleep Where no morrows break, -- Why take heed to tread so soft? -- Fear you lest I wake? Time there was when I was red As a rose in June With the kisses of your lips, -- Ah, they failed me soon. Now they would not warm my mouth Though they fell like rain: I am marble, dear; and they Marble cannot stain. Ah, if you had loved me more, Been content to wait, Some time you had found the key To Love's inmost gate. Why, indeed, should any man Wait for Autumn days, When the present Summer wooes To her rosy ways? Only, -- now I lie here dead; I shall not awake, And you need not tread so soft For my deaf ears' sake. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES by RANDALL JARRELL SUBJECTED EARTH by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE GRAVE OF MRS. HEMANS by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER THOSE GRAVES IN ROME by LARRY LEVIS NOT TO BE DWELLED ON by HEATHER MCHUGH ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE by PAUL MULDOON ETRUSCAN TOMB by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR by MARVIN BELL A PAINTED FAN by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON |
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