Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WINTER FLOWERS, by PHOEBE CARY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though nature's lonesome, leafless bowers Last Line: That has no stain of sin to hide. Subject(s): Flowers | ||||||||
THOUGH Nature's lonesome, leafless bowers, With winter's awful snows are white, The tender smell of leaves and flowers Makes May-time in my room to-night: While some, in homeless poverty, Shrink moaning from the bitter blast; What am I, that my lines should be In good and pleasant places cast? When other souls despairing stand, And plead with famished lips to-day, Why is it that a loving hand Should scatter blossoms in my way? O flowers, with soft and dewy eyes, To God my gratitude reveal; Send up your incense to the skies, And utter, for me, what I feel! O innocent roses, in your buds Hiding for very modesty; O violets, smelling of the woods, Thank Him, with all your sweets for me! And tell him, I would give this hour All that is mine of good beside, To have the pure heart of a flower, That has no stain of sin to hide. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THEY SAW THE PROBLEM by MARK JARMAN SHAKE THE SUPERFLUX! by DAVID LEHMAN THE M??TIER OF BLOSSOMING by DENISE LEVERTOV TANKA DIARY (6) by HARRYETTE MULLEN VARIATIONS: 17 by CONRAD AIKEN FORCED BLOOM by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN A LEGEND OF THE NORTHLAND by PHOEBE CARY |
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