ALTHOUGH I saw before me there the face Of one whom I had honored among men The least, and on regarding him again Would not have had him in another place, He fitted with an unfamiliar grace The coffin where I could not see him then As I had seen him and appraised him when I deemed him unessential to the race. For there was more of him than what I saw. And there was on me more than the old awe That is the common genius of the dead. I might as well have heard him: "Never mind; If some of us were not so far behind, The rest of us were not so far ahead." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LIKE A LAVEROCK IN THE LIFT by JEAN INGELOW THE CHARACTER OF HOLLAND by ANDREW MARVELL EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 19. THE HEART, LOVE'S BUTT by PHILIP AYRES THE PROEM. TO LOVE by PHILIP AYRES THE SCHOONER by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN AN ANSWER TO AN INVITATION TO CAMBRIDGE by ABRAHAM COWLEY |