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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOR THE WINDOW IN ST. MARGARET'S, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Afar he sleeps whose name is graven here Last Line: Heaven lent, earth borrowed, sorrowing to restore. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies | |||
AFAR he sleeps whose name is graven here, Where loving hearts his early doom deplore; Youth, promise, virtue, all that made him dear Heaven lent, earth borrowed, sorrowing to restore. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LOST CHILDREN by RANDALL JARRELL THE MOURNER by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN MELANCHOLY; AN ODE by WILLIAM BROOME SISTERS IN ARMS by AUDRE LORDE A BOTANICAL TROPE by WILLIAM MEREDITH FOR MOHAMMED ZEID OF GAZA, AGE 15 by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE A BALLAD OF THE BOSTON TEA-PARTY [DECEMBER 16, 1773] by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES |
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