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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COUNTRY FUNERAL, by AMY LEE SPENCER First Line: This is the greatest day you ever knew Last Line: You have known fame at last -- among the dead. Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Funerals; Life; Prayer; Dead, The; Burials | |||
This is the greatest day you ever knew; For you, the neighbor-folk make holiday. For you, the drying hay lies wet with dew. Death has lent you his glory -- "Let us pray." Two women cherished you -- in death and birth And tallied up your score of blame and praise. A meager man, you crawled along God's earth Unfeted, till this greatest of your days. You would be proud to see the darkened rooms, The eyes that blur, the heads bowed through the hours; And touch with wondering hands the strange wax blooms The grave has conjured up instead of flowers. In awkward clothes you never saw in life, Friends stumble in with praises long unsaid -- The widow loves you more than did the wife -- You have known fame at last -- among the dead. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FUNERAL SERMON by ANDREW HUDGINS RETURN FROM DELHI by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE SCATTERING OF EVAN JONES'S ASHES by GALWAY KINNELL BROWNING'S FUNERAL by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL FALLING ASLEEP OVER THE AENEID by ROBERT LOWELL MY FATHER'S BODY by WILLIAM MATTHEWS LINES ON A CANARY SINGING TO AN ELECTRIC BEATER by AMY LEE SPENCER |
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