dots-menu
×

Home  »  Anthology of Massachusetts Poets  »  The Farewell

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Massachusetts Poets. 1922.

The Farewell

WHAT is more beautiful

Than thought, soul-fed,

That I may be the crimson of a rose

When dead?

My soul, so light a joy

And grief will be,

That it will gently press the brown earth down

On me.