Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VIOLETS SENT IN A LITTLE BOX, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poet's Biography First Line: Let them lie, yes, let them lie Last Line: Richer scent through dying. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Flowers; Violets | ||||||||
LET them lie, yes, let them lie, They'll be dead to-morrow: Lift the lid up quietly As you'd lift the mystery Of a shrouded sorrow. Let them lie, the fragrant things, Their sweet souls thus giving: Let no breezes' ambient wings, And no useless water-springs Lure them into living. They have lived -- they live no more: Nothing can requite them For the gentle life they bore And up-yielded in full store While it did delight them. Yet, poor flowers, not sad to die In the hand that slew ye, Did ye leave the open sky, And the winds that wandered by, And the bees that knew ye. Giving up a small earth place, And a day of blooming, Here to lie in narrow space, Smiling in this sickly face, This dull air perfuming? O my pretty violets dead, Coffined from all gazes, We will also smiling shed Out of our flowers withered, Perfume of sweet praises. And as ye, for this poor sake, Love with life are buying, So, I doubt not, ONE will make All our gathered flowers to take Richer scent through dying. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HEAVY VIOLETS by BARBARA GUEST THE YELLOW VIOLET by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT WAR IS KIND: 23 by STEPHEN CRANE SONNET by ALICE RUTH MOORE DUNBAR-NELSON HOW VIOLETS CAME BLUE by ROBERT HERRICK UNDER THE VIOLETS by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES THE FADED VIOLET by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH BY THE ALMA RIVER by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK DOUGLAS, DOUGLAS, TENDER AND TRUE by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK |
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