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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REQUIEM, by SHANE LESLIE Poet's Biography First Line: In sweet irish clay may I lie Last Line: To those it had sought. | |||
IN sweet Irish clay may I lie Heart clasped to my race, O brothers and sisters of mine, Give me of your space! For mine was the life that you lived, The fight that you fought, And bright in the gloom of mine own Were deeds you had wrought. So let the dear dust of your dead Drift over my face, And this be the dirge that you sing And song that you trace. A pebble is thrown to the beach From whence it was brought, A leaf has dropped weary for rest To those it had sought. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...REBEL MOTHER'S LULLABY by SHANE LESLIE IRELAND TO-DAY by SHANE LESLIE THE EXILES SPEAK TO IRELAND by SHANE LESLIE THE PATER OF THE CANNON by SHANE LESLIE THE EXPOSED NEST by ROBERT FROST THE GOLDEN NET by WILLIAM BLAKE AN INDIGNATION DINNER by JAMES DAVID CORROTHERS ONLY WAITING by FRANCES LAUGHTON MACE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN A TERRE (BEING THE PHILOSOPHY OF MANY SOLDIERS) by WILFRED OWEN |
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