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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LIVING DEAD, by RALPH CHAPLIN Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie Last Line: And dare not speak! Subject(s): Freedom; Industrial Workers Of The World (i.w.w.); Labor Unions; Liberty | |||
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie— Dust unto dust— The calm sweet earth that mothers all who die As all men must; Mourn not your captured comrades who must dwell— Too strong to strive— Each in his steel-bound coffin of a cell, buried alive; But rather mourn the apathetic throng— The cowed and meek— Who see the world's great anguish and its wrong And dare not speak! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOVE THE WILD SWAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS AFTER TENNYSON by AMBROSE BIERCE QUARTET IN F MAJOR by WILLIAM MEREDITH CROSS THAT LINE by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE EMANCIPATION by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER TO MY LITTLE SON by RALPH CHAPLIN |
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