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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MY TRIUMPH LASTED TILL THE DRUMS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is nothing to the dead Subject(s): Death | |||
My Triumph lasted till the Drums Had left the Dead alone And then I dropped my Victory And chastened stole along To where the finished Faces Conclusion turned on me And then I hated Glory And wished myself were They. What is to be is best descried When it has also been - Could Prospect taste of Retrospect The tyrannies of Men Were Tenderer - diviner The Transitive toward. A Bayonet's contrition Is nothing to the Dead. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY HOW THE MIRROR LOOKS THIS MORNING by HICOK. BOB NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND FAITH' IS A FINE INVENTION by EMILY DICKINSON |
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