Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PUT OUT THE LIGHT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS


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PUT OUT THE LIGHT, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Put out the light; - and then
Last Line: To earth or sea or sky.
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Light; Pain; Wind; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery


"Put out the light; -- and then
Put out the light!"
O loss to mortal men
Of all delight!
You who were so sun-fair
Your beauty warmed the air,
You who were so care-free
You healed all misery,
Must cry with ghosts upon the wind
Or be in frozen earth confined.
The fairest things are the briefest things;
And the sweetest soonest die;
No sign, no trace, no memory clings
To earth or sea or sky.





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