Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CAPTIVE, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer comes, the summer dies Last Line: One rapture of the wilderness! Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Longing; Summer; Dead, The | ||||||||
The Summer comes, the Summer dies, Red leaves whirl idly from the tree, But no more cleaving of the skies, No southward sunshine waits for me! You shut me in a gilded cage, You deck the bars with tropic flowers, Nor know that freedom's living rage Defies you through the listless hours. What passion fierce, what service true, Could ever such a wrong requite? What gift, or clasp, or kiss from you Were worth an hour of soaring flight? I beat my wings against the wire, I pant my trammelled heart away; The fever of one mad desire Burns and consumes me all the day. What care I for your tedious love, For tender word or fond caress? I die for one free flight above, One rapture of the wilderness! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND |
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