1. Home »
  2. Canadian Poets »
  3. Bliss Carman

If Death be Good

by Bliss Carman

Bliss Carman

(Sappho LXXIV)
If death be good,
Why do the gods not die?
If life be ill,
Why do the gods still live?
If love be naught,
Why do the gods still love?
If love be all,
What should men do but love?




Quotes of the Day

People CANNOT be labeled. Everyone borrows different pieces of various idealogies which is what makes us so unique.
• Lisa Johnson


Poems of the Day
  • Carl Sandburg
    Dynamiter
    by Carl Sandburg
    I SAT with a dynamiter at supper in a German saloon eating steak and onions. And he laughed and told stories of his wife and children and the cause of labor and the working class.