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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FUNERAL BELL, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One more is gone Last Line: Into sweet rhyme. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials | |||
One more is gone Out of the busy throng That tread these paths; The church bell tolls, Its sad knell rolls To many hearths. Flower bells toll not, Their echoes roll not Unto my ear; -- There still perchance, That gentle spirit haunts A fragrant bier. Low lies the pall, Lowly the mourners all Their passage grope; -- No sable hue Mars the serene blue Of heaven's cope. In distant dell Faint sounds the funeral bell, A heavenly chime; Some poet there Weaves the light burthened air Into sweet rhyme. | 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 |
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