Death & Dying
To Eoghan
From Poetical Works (1916): Miscellaneous Poems
Death & Dying
Will you gaze after the dead, gaze into the grave? —
Strain your eyes in the darkness, knowing it vain?
Strain your voice in the silence that never gave
To any voice or yours an answer again ?
She whom you loved long years is dead, and you
Stay, and you cannot bear it and cry for her —
And life will cure this pain — or death : you too
Shall quiet lie where cries no echo stir.
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MacDonagh, Thomas. “To Eoghan.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/macdonagh/13/.
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MacDonagh, Thomas. “To Eoghan.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/macdonagh/13/.
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