Versos English Francis Ledwidge At A Poet'S Grave

English poem

At A Poet'S Grave

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When I leave down this pipe my friend And sleep with flowers I loved, apart, My songs shall rise in wilding things Whose roots are in my heart.

And here where that sweet poet sleeps I hear the songs he left unsung, When winds are fluttering the flowers And summer-bells are rung.

November, 1916.