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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHEN I HAVE GONE WEIRD WAYS, by JOHN GNEISENAU NEIHARDT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I have finished with this episode Last Line: Out of the atom-drift! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The | |||
When I have finished with this episode, Left the hard, uphill road, And gone weird ways to seek another load, Oh, friends, regret me not, nor weep for me, Child of Infinity! Nor dig a grave, nor rear for me a tomb To say with lying writ: "Here in the gloom He who loved bigness takes a narrow room, Content to pillow here his weary head, For he is dead." But give my body to the funeral pyre, And bid the laughing fire, Eager and strong and swift, like my desire, Scatter my subtle essence into space, Free me of time and place. And sweep the bitter ashes from the hearth, Fling back the dust I borrowed from the earth Into the chemic broil of death and birth, The vast alembic of the cryptic scheme, Warm with the master-dream. And thus, O little house that sheltered me, Dissolve again in wind and rain, to be Part of the cosmic weird economy. And, Oh, how oft with new life shalt thou lift Out of the atom-drift! | 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 NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND ENVOI by JOHN GNEISENAU NEIHARDT |
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