I kissed a kiss in youth
   Upon a dead man’s brow;
And that was long ago,—
   And I’m a grown man now,
 
It’s lain there in the dust,
   Thirty years and more;—
My lips that set a light
   At a dead man’s door.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on July 15, 2018, by the Academy of American Poets.