Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RESURRECTION, by HARRIET ANNA WRATTEN First Line: O, I have learned how beauty, lingering, sings Last Line: Upon the earth. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life | ||||||||
O, I have learned how Beauty, lingering, sings Long after Song is dead and vibrant strings Are stilled. I have felt hyacinth and mignonette Stir in my nostrils after storms beset And killed Their bloom. I can close covers on a cherished book And feast upon it endlessly; or look Into the sky When midday challenges Belief to sight The stars that wait on darkness for their light. And I -- Pressing to heart these vows from God to me, That Death is tempered with Eternity, Reverence the worth Of men who, singing, join the wept-for dead, Valiantly, forward-looking, laying head Upon the earth. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IKON: THE HARROWING OF HELL by DENISE LEVERTOV LEEK STREET by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR UNABLE TO FIND by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS 3 by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 1 by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 2 by HAYDEN CARRUTH WRITING IN THE AFTERLIFE by BILLY COLLINS TWENTY-FOUR HOKKU ON A MODERN THEME by AMY LOWELL |
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