Earthly Measures by Edward Hirsch

Author:Edward Hirsch [Hirsch, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-76061-6
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2013-10-09T00:00:00+00:00

Keats was interred here, so was Shelley—

But if it should “make one in love with death”

To lie there, that’s only if death

Itself were conscious, a consequent clarity.

The place was heartbreaking in what it asked you—

In such a world as this—to renounce:

The resplendent light, the evidence

Of a solid blue block of perfect sky …

The injunction to the reader, on the tomb

Of Miss Rosa Bathurst, to lay down a wreath

“For she who lies beneath thy feet in death

Was the loveliest flower ever cropt in its bloom”

Struck him irresistibly as a case for tears.

“Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water”

Was inscribed in stone under a broken lyre.

What was one to make of the advancing years?

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