OH ! Death what have you to say? Like a bride - like a bride-groom they ride away: You shall go back to make up the fire, To learn patience - to learn grief, To learn sleep when the light has quite gone out of your earthly skies, But they have the light in their eyes To the end of their day." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LITANY OF THE DARK PEOPLE by COUNTEE CULLEN THE BLACK MAMMY by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON TONE PICTURE (MALIPIERO: IMPRESSONI DAL VERO) by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER AUTUMN WOODS by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT ROBERT BRUCE'S ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY BEFORE BANNOCKBURN by ROBERT BURNS THE FIRE OF DRIFTWOOD; DEVEREUX FARM, NEAR MARBLEHEAD by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW |