Death & Dying
After Soufrière
From A Selection from the Poems of Michael Field (1923)
Death & Dying
It is not grief or pain;
But like the even dropping of the rain,
That thou art gone.
It is not like a grave
To weep upon;
But like the rise and falling of a wave
When the vessel's gone.
It is like the sudden void
When the city is destroyed.
Where the sun shone:
There is neither grief nor pain,
But the wide waste come again.
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Codex Note
From Wild Honey, as marked in the 1923 Selection.
Cite this poem
MLA
Field, Michael. “After Soufrière.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/136/.
Chicago
Field, Michael. “After Soufrière.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/136/.
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