The Elegy Love can not fill the thickening blood with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; Yet many a man is making friends with death.

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The Elegy Love can not fill the thickening blood with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; Yet many a man is making friends with death Even as I speak, for lack of love alone. ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Elegy  An elegy is a poem that mourns the death of a person or laments something lost.

The Elegy  The dominant mood in Anglo-Saxon poetry is elegiac.  There is a sense of sadness over the grimness and transience of earthly life, which is found in the heroic epic.  It is also found in several Old English fragments and poems in which a bard laments the passing of better days and greater glories.

The Seafarer

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The Seafarer  The Anglo-Saxons were sea voyagers, and the northern seas were then, as now, especially cruel.  The speaker in “The Seafarer” is an old sailor who drifted through many winters on ice cold seas.

HeroesCelebrities The Middle