Death & Dying

March

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807–1882

Death & Dying

I Martius am! Once first, and now the third!
To lead the Year was my appointed place;
A mortal dispossessed me by a word,
And set there Janus with the double face.
Hence I make war on all the human race;
I shake the cities with my hurricanes;
I flood the rivers and their banks efface,
And drown the farms and hamlets with my rains.

MLA

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. “March.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/longfellow/195/.

Chicago

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. “March.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/longfellow/195/.

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