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May Swenson

May Swenson was born Anna Thilda May Swenson on May 28, 1913...
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		Poems About Funerals
		In Memoriam, [To Sleep I give my powers away] by Lord Alfred Tennyson

		A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London by Dylan Thomas

		Age and Death by Emma Lazarus

		Because I could not stop for Death (712) by Emily Dickinson

		Bomb Crater Sky by Lam Thi My Da

		By ways remote and distant waters sped (101) by Gaius Valerius Catullus

		Driven across many nations (101) by Gaius Valerius Catullus

		For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell

		Fugue of Death by Paul Celan

		In Flanders Fields by John McCrae

		Night Funeral in Harlem by Langston Hughes

		O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman

		The Earth Opens and Welcomes You by Abdellatif Laâbi

		The World as Seen Through a Glass of Ice Water by Dobby Gibson

		Untitled [This is what was bequeathed us] by Gregory Orr

		What Came to Me by Jane Kenyon

Question
by May Swenson

Body my house my horse my hound what will I do when you are fallen Where will I sleep How will I ride What will I hunt Where can I go without my mount all eager and quick How will I know in thicket ahead is danger or treasure when Body my good bright dog is dead How will it be to lie in the sky without roof or door and wind for an eye With cloud for shift how will I hide?
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From New & Selected Things Taking Place by May Swenson. Copyright © 1978 by the estate of May Swenson. Reprinted by permission of the estate of May Swenson. All rights reserved.