3 Denise Levertov Quotes on Death

Denise Levertov quotes on death

16. It is said he made his earth-journey, and lost what he sought. It is said they felled him and cut up his limbs for firewood. And it is said his head still sang and was swept out to sea singing.

32. Down through the tomb's inward arch He has shouldered out into Limbo to gather them, dazed, from dreamless slumber...

33. Didmas, neighbor in death, Golgotha dust still streaked on the dried sweat of his body no one had washed and anointed, is here, for sequence is not known in Limbo; the promise, given from cross to cross at noon, arches beyond sunset and dawn.