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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SAFE IN THEIR ALABASTER CHAMBERS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Soundless as dots on a disk of snow Subject(s): Graves; Resurrection, The | |||
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - Untouched by Morning And untouched by Noon - Sleep the meek members of the Resurrection - Rafter of satin, And Roof of stone. Light laughs the breeze In her Castle above them - Babbles the Bee in a stolid Ear, Pipe the Sweet Birds in ignorant cadence - Ah, what sagacity perished here! Grand go the years in the crescent above them; Worlds scoop their arcs, and firmaments row, Diadems drop and Doges surrender, Soundless as dots on a disk of snow | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EASTER SUNDAY by LUCILLE CLIFTON THE READER OF THE SENTENCES by NORMAN DUBIE RESURRECTION UPDATE by JAMES GALVIN UNHOLY SONNET: 20 by MARK JARMAN ON RISING FROM THE DEAD by CAROLYN KIZER A GUARD OF THE SEPULCHER by EDWIN MARKHAM THE RESURRECTION by JONATHAN HENDERSON BROOKS FAITH' IS A FINE INVENTION by EMILY DICKINSON |
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