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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
POET'S GRAVE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this pleasant beechen shade Subject(s): U.s. - History | |||
In this pleasant beechen shade Where the wild-rose blossoms red, Lieth one who, being dead, Is neither matron, man, nor maid. But once he wore the form of God, And walked the earth with meaner things: Death snapt him. See! above him springs The very grass whereon he trod! Let the world swing to and fro, The slant rain fall, the wind blow strong: Time cannot do him any wrong While he is wrapped and cradled so! Ah, much he suffered in his day: He knelt with Virtue, kissed with Sin - Wild Passion's child, and Sorrow's twin, A meteor that had lost its way! He walked with goblins, ghouls, and things Unsightly, - terrors and despairs; And ever in the starry airs A dismal raven flapped its wings! He died. Six people bore his pall; And three were sorry, three were not: They buried him, and then forgot His very grave - the lot of all! But strains of music here and there, Weird children whom nobody owns, Are blown across the fragrant zones Forever in the midnight air! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OLD OSAWATOMIE by CARL SANDBURG THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG by HARRY MACARTHY LEE'S PAROLE by MARION MANVILLE THE SURRENDER OF NEW ORLEANS by MARION MANVILLE THE LITTLE ODYSSEY OF JASON QUINT, OF SCIENCE, DOCTOR by THOMAS MCGRATH A CANTICLE: SIGNIFICANT OF NATIONAL EXALTATION CLOSE OF WAR by HERMAN MELVILLE A GRAVE NEAR PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA by HERMAN MELVILLE AFTER THE RAIN by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH AN ALPINE PICTURE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH AN ODE ON THE UNVEILING OF THE SHAW MEMORIA BOSTON COMMON, MAY 31, 1897 by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |
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