Sonnet
Title
Sonnet
Description
Poem about death and afterlife.
Date
1944-08-22
Temporal Coverage
Language
Format
One page typewritten document
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Identifier
SYeomanHT104405v10010
Transcription
[underlined]SONNET[/underlined]
Tell me, O Sky, that you contain
The Eventual End, the Great Hereafter - -
Is it Grace and Quietness, and Laughter,
With Lovely Thoughts, where there’s no pain?
To dream there each eternal year,
Laughing and lovely, ageless, wise,
In freedom? And do our child-eyes
Look on the Great One without fear?
And there, being no longer blind,
Shine and dance, exult unmarred
By time, and per celestially starred,
Tread formlessly, the gayest wind?
Oh! Is it a shining land, and high?
And do we all come - - - even I?
Stannington
22 Aug 44
Tell me, O Sky, that you contain
The Eventual End, the Great Hereafter - -
Is it Grace and Quietness, and Laughter,
With Lovely Thoughts, where there’s no pain?
To dream there each eternal year,
Laughing and lovely, ageless, wise,
In freedom? And do our child-eyes
Look on the Great One without fear?
And there, being no longer blind,
Shine and dance, exult unmarred
By time, and per celestially starred,
Tread formlessly, the gayest wind?
Oh! Is it a shining land, and high?
And do we all come - - - even I?
Stannington
22 Aug 44
Collection
Citation
“Sonnet,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed March 17, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/30973.
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