I Have a Rendezvous with Death - Alan Seeger poem reading | Jordan Harling Reads

Poetry reading of I Have a Rendezvous with Death (1917) by Alan Seeger.

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I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms fill the air—
I have a rendezvous with Death
When Spring brings back blue days and fair.

It may be he shall take my hand
And lead me into his dark land
And close my eyes and quench my breath—
It may be I shall pass him still.
I have a rendezvous with Death
On some scarred slope of battered hill,
When Spring comes round again this year
And the first meadow-flowers appear.

God knows 'twere better to be deep
Pillowed in silk and scented down,
Where Love throbs out in blissful sleep,
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
Where hushed awakenings are dear ...
But I've a rendezvous with Death
At midnight in some flaming town,
When Spring trips north again this year,
And I to my pledged word am true,
I shall not fail that rendezvous.

I Have a Rendezvous with Death - written by Alan Seeger
Narrated by Jordan Harling

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Author image:

See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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We all have a rendezvous with death. There is One who promises eternal life.

[tomobedlam]

"God knows
'twere better to be deep
Pillowed
in silk
and scented down (eiderdown and down, derry derry derry let's get down to business down. Y'all down wid dat?)
This poem has more layers than Kamala yo!