418. I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger
b"A Seeger read by Classic Poetry Aloud: Giving voice to the poetry of the past.\\nwww.classicpoetryaloud.com\\n\\n--------------------------------------------\\n\\nI Have a Rendezvous with Death\\nby Alan Seeger (1888 \\u2013 1916)\\n\\nI have a rendezvous with Death \\nAt some disputed barricade, \\nWhen Spring comes back with rustling shade \\nAnd apple-blossoms fill the air \\u2013 \\nI have a rendezvous with Death\\nWhen Spring brings back blue days and fair. \\n \\nIt may be he shall take my hand \\nAnd lead me into his dark land \\nAnd close my eyes and quench my breath \\u2013 \\nIt may be I shall pass him still. \\nI have a rendezvous with Death \\nOn some scarred slope of battered hill, \\nWhen Spring comes round again this year \\nAnd the first meadow-flowers appear. \\n \\nGod knows 'twere better to be deep \\nPillowed in silk and scented down, \\nWhere love throbs out in blissful sleep, \\nPulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath, \\nWhere hushed awakenings are dear... \\nBut I've a rendezvous with Death \\nAt midnight in some flaming town, \\nWhen Spring trips north again this year, \\nAnd I to my pledged word am true, \\nI shall not fail that rendezvous. \\n\\n\\nFirst aired: 15 February 2008\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2009"