Faulkner's poetry

[Anna Seis]

I am curious because I found there isn't a subforum in dedication to William Faulkner. In general chat I wrote a foolish about meet in heaven with him, and I forgot to tell the reason: If I should rose again is one of these reasons. This poem was published in a book intitled A green bough. I just have twelve of the poems included in it. If there is anybody who knows about another leaves from the branch, please share it. I have chosen these:

If there be grief, then let it be but rain,
And this but silver rain for grieving's sake
If these green woods be draming here to wake
Within my heart, if I should rose again.

But I shall sleep, for where is any death
While in these blue hills slumbrous overhead
I'm rooted like a tree? Though I be dead,
This earth that holds me fast will find me breath.



Did I know love once? Was it love or grief,
This grave body by where I had lain,
And my heart, a single stubborn leaf
That will not die, though root and branch be slain?

Though warm in dark between the breasts of Death,
That other breast forgot where I did lie,
And from the tree are stripped the leaves of breath,
There's still one stubborn leaf that will not die,

But restless in the sad and bitter earth,
Gains with each dawn a death, with dusk a birth.

[Ulalume<3]

Faulkner isn't on this site because he is more modern and this site doesn't have any modern authors.

[thesebluehills]

In a biography by Joseph Blotner, that first poem you have is also listed as "Mississippi: my epitaph."

It has that line about these blue hills in it.

I liked it so much i decided to create a website about my area in north mississippi called thesebluehills.com

You should check it out.
http://thesebluehills.com/

[Amylian]

Lovely poem by the way...