Man Answers Death: An Anthology of PoetryCorliss Lamont |
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... Short - ah , how short - that fleeting space ; And when man's little race Is run , and Death's grim portals o'er him close , How lasting his repose ! SIMONIDES ( John Hermann Merivale ) ¶ Man's Mortality Like as the damask rose you see ...
... Short - ah , how short - that fleeting space ; And when man's little race Is run , and Death's grim portals o'er him close , How lasting his repose ! SIMONIDES ( John Hermann Merivale ) ¶ Man's Mortality Like as the damask rose you see ...
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... short song , Or like a journey three days long , Or like the snow when summer's come , Or like the pear , or like the plum— Even such is man , who heaps up sorrow , Lives but this day and dies tomorrow . The lightning's past , the post ...
... short song , Or like a journey three days long , Or like the snow when summer's come , Or like the pear , or like the plum— Even such is man , who heaps up sorrow , Lives but this day and dies tomorrow . The lightning's past , the post ...
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... short and wears away . Both alike are mine and thine Hastening quick to their decline : Thine's a summer , mine's no more , Though repeated to threescore . Threescore summers , when they're gone , Will appear as short as one ! WILLIAM ...
... short and wears away . Both alike are mine and thine Hastening quick to their decline : Thine's a summer , mine's no more , Though repeated to threescore . Threescore summers , when they're gone , Will appear as short as one ! WILLIAM ...
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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