Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DAY-DREAM: MORAL, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, lady flora, take my lay Last Line: Should hook it to some useful end. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
So, Lady Flora, take my lay, And if you find no moral there, Go, look in any glass and say, What moral is in being fair. O, to what uses shall we put The wildweed-flower that simply blows? And is there any moral shut Within the bosom of the rose? But any man that walks the mead, In bud or blade or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited to his mind. And liberal applications lie In Art like Nature, dearest friend; So 'twere to cramp its use if I Should hook it to some useful end. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB A CHARACTER by ALFRED TENNYSON |
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