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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON, by MARGUERITE E. ROSEBERY First Line: Dear dead poet, in your lyric way Last Line: And you'll write new songs on a bright new page. Subject(s): Memory; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers | |||
Dear dead poet, in your lyric way You taught us beauty and the gift of song. You limned for us the spirit in the clay, And smiled through tears the whole day long. You sang of pain, dark sister of the night, This gift she bore beneath her cruel mask— Sealed are your dear lips now, and white, Her last farwell to you we may not ask. "Not to this world—o, no, not this!" You gave your sainted heart, but hand to serve, So may you forget through world of bliss Life's cruel pain that racked your fine-strung nerve. Who knows? To earth you may come again A fair, strong body, in a grand new age, While joy shall wait on you where once stood pain, And you'll write new songs on a bright new page. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE APOLLO TRIO by CONRAD AIKEN BAD GIRL SINGING by MARK JARMAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 4 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 5 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 28 by JAMES JOYCE THE SONG OF THE NIGHTINGALE IS LIKE THE SCENT OF SYRINGA by MINA LOY I WOULD OUTRUN DEATH by MARGUERITE E. ROSEBERY |
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