Death & Dying

The Suicide

by Thomas MacDonagh 1878–1916

From Poetical Works (1916): Songs of Myself

Death & Dying

Here when I have died,
And when my body is found,
They will bury it by the roadside
And in no blessed ground.

And no one my story will tell,
And no one will honour my name :
They will think that they bury well
The damned in their grave of shame.

But alike shall be at last
The shamed and the blessed place,
The future and the past,
Man's grace and man's disgrace.

Secure in their grave I shall be
From it all, and quiet then,
With no thought and no memory
Of the deeds and the dooms of men.

MLA

MacDonagh, Thomas. “The Suicide.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/macdonagh/4/.

Chicago

MacDonagh, Thomas. “The Suicide.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/macdonagh/4/.

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