by Eliot · Cluster: Mortality · Grave · Memento Mori
Abstract
Section header containing Eyes that last I saw in tears: death’s dream kingdom, lost vision, eyes/tears; grief and the afterlife.
Connections
Topoi: Memento Mori Motifs: Death, Eyes and Sight, Dreams Themes & Concepts: Grief and Loss Forms & Genres: Lyric
Testo integrale / Full text
MINOR POEMS
Eyes that last I saw in tears
Eyes that last I saw in tears
Through division
Here in death’s dream kingdom
The golden vision reappears
I see the eyes but not the tears
This is my affliction.
This is my affliction
Eyes I shall not see again
Eyes of decision
Eyes I shall not see unless
At the door of death’s other kingdom
Where, as in this,
The eyes outlast a little while
A little while outlast the tears
And hold us in derision.