"To A Daughter Leaving Home"~~~~~"Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins~~~~~"Dream of Fair Women"~~~~~"Crossing the Bar"~~~~~"Sorting Laundry"~~~~~"Siren Song"~~~~~"Curiosity"~~~~~"Mirror"~~~~~"Death of a Soldier"~~~~~"One Perfect Rose"~~~~~"A Constant Lover"~~~~~"A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning"~~~~~"Get Up and Bar the Door"~~~~~"Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat Nor Drink"~~~~~"Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?"



The Death of a Soldier


Life contracts and death is expected,

As in a season of autumn.

The soldier falls.

He does not become a three-days personage,

Imposing his separation,

Caling for pomp.

Death is absolute and without memorial,

As in a season of autumn,

When the wind stops,

When the wind stops and, over the heavens,

The clouds go, nevertheless,

In their direction.

Wallace Stevens