For Myself
What’s in this grave is worth your tear; There’s more than the eye can see; Folly and Pride and Love lie here Buried alive with me.
Countee Cullen
What’s in this grave is worth your tear; There’s more than the eye can see; Folly and Pride and Love lie here Buried alive with me.
Countee Cullen’s “For Myself” reads like a short epitaph spoken from inside the grave. The speaker tells a passerby that the body buried here deserves genuine grief, because the grave contains more than a corpse.
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