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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SHE; AT HIS FUNERAL, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They bear him to his resting-place Last Line: Whilst my regret consumes like fire! Subject(s): Funerals; Burials | |||
THEY bear him to his resting-place -- In slow procession sweeping by; I follow at a stranger's space; His kindred they, his sweetheart I. Unchanged my gown of garish dye, Though sable-sad is their attire; But they stand round with griefless eye, Whilst my regret consumes like fire! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FUNERAL SERMON by ANDREW HUDGINS RETURN FROM DELHI by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE SCATTERING OF EVAN JONES'S ASHES by GALWAY KINNELL BROWNING'S FUNERAL by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL FALLING ASLEEP OVER THE AENEID by ROBERT LOWELL MY FATHER'S BODY by WILLIAM MATTHEWS AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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