Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE MOON-LIGHT SHINING UPON A FRIEND'S GRAVE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography First Line: Show not, o moon! With pure and liquid beam Last Line: And after bury'd friends are doom'd to live. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones | ||||||||
SHOW not, O Moon! with pure and liquid beam, That mournful spot, where Memory fears to tread; Glance on the grove, or quiver in the stream, Or tip the hills -- but shine not on the dead: It wounds the lonely hearts that still survive, And after bury'd friends are doom'd to live. | 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 HER FIRST-BORN by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER |
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