Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MEMORIAL DAY, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers for our dead! Last Line: Love for our dead! Variant Title(s): For Our Dead Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day | ||||||||
FLOWERS for our dead! The delicate wild roses, faintly red; The valley lily beds, as purely white As shines their honor in the vernal light; All blooms that be As fragrant as their fadeless memory! By tender hands entwined and garlanded, Flowers for our dead! ... Love for our dead! O hearts that droop and mourn, be comforted! The darksome path through the abyss of pain, The final hour of travail not in vain! For freedom's morning smile Broadens across the seas from isle to isle. By reverent lips let this fond word be said: Love for our dead! | 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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