Man Answers Death: An Anthology of PoetryCorliss Lamont |
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... dead men are deaf and cannot hear The singing of a thousand nightingales . I know dead men are blind and cannot see The friend that shuts in horror their big eyes , And they are witless - O , I'd rather be A living mouse than dead as a ...
... dead men are deaf and cannot hear The singing of a thousand nightingales . I know dead men are blind and cannot see The friend that shuts in horror their big eyes , And they are witless - O , I'd rather be A living mouse than dead as a ...
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... dead . To the forgotten dead , Whose dauntless hands were stretched to grasp the rein Of Fate and hurl into the void again Her thunder - hoofèd horses , rushing blind Earthward along the courses of the wind . Among the stars , along the ...
... dead . To the forgotten dead , Whose dauntless hands were stretched to grasp the rein Of Fate and hurl into the void again Her thunder - hoofèd horses , rushing blind Earthward along the courses of the wind . Among the stars , along the ...
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... Dead . To the Oxford University Press for the excerpt from “ Oedipus , King of Thebes " by Sophocles , translated by Gilbert Murray , for two selections from Gilbert Murray's translation of " Alcestis " by Euripides , and for On a Dead ...
... Dead . To the Oxford University Press for the excerpt from “ Oedipus , King of Thebes " by Sophocles , translated by Gilbert Murray , for two selections from Gilbert Murray's translation of " Alcestis " by Euripides , and for On a Dead ...
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A. E. HOUSMAN ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Annabel Lee Babette Deutsch beauty body breast breath bright cold Collected Poems dark dead dear death deep delight dost doth dream dust dying earth EMILY DICKINSON eternal eyes fade fair fame fate fear fire flower Gilbert Murray glory gone grave grief grow hand happy hast hath hear heart heaven hope hour human immortal JOHN KEATS JOHN MASEFIELD JOSEPH AUSLANDER kings LANGSTON HUGHES Laurence Binyon life's light lips live look lover Lucretius mortal Nature never night o'er once pain pass peace praise rendezvous with Death rest rose shadow shalt shining sigh sing sleep song Sonnet sorrow soul spirit spring stars sweet tears tender thee thine things thou art thought tomb tread VINCENT MILLAY voice weep WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE wind youth