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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO CONSUMPTION, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE Poet's Biography First Line: Gently, most gently, on thy victim's head Last Line: Compose my decent head, and breathe my last. Subject(s): Tuberculosis; Consumption (pathology) | |||
GENTLY, most gently, on thy victim's head, Consumption, lay thine hand! -- let me decay, Like the expiring lamp, unseen, away, And softly go to slumber with the dead. And if 't is true, what holy men have said, That strains angelic oft foretell the day Of death to those good men who fall thy prey, O let the aerial music round my bed, Dissolving sad in dying symphony, Whisper the solemn warning in mine ear! That I may bid my weeping friends good-by Ere I depart upon my journey drear: And, smiling faintly on the painful past, Compose my decent head, and breathe my last. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE IMMORALIST by NORMAN DUBIE THE SEAGULL; CHEKHOV AT YALTA by NORMAN DUBIE ON A TWIN AT TWO YEARS OLD DEAD OF A CONSUMPTION by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) THE CONSUMPTIVE by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY CONSUMPTION by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL CURE PORCHES by MARGOT SCHILPP INDIAN GIRL'S BURIAL by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY THE CONSUMPTIVE GIRL; FROM A PICTURE by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY THE CONSUMPTIVE by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON THE EARLY PRIMROSE by HENRY KIRKE WHITE |
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