Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LIFE, by HENRY DENISON


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LIFE, by                    
First Line: Ah, when the gentle breath of spring comes
Last Line: Its bars asunder, and its music ends.
Subject(s): Life


Ah, when the gentle breath of Spring comes o'er
The harp, Aeolian melody is born;
Child of the skies, young music smiles once more,
Then starts and dies amidst the autumnal storm!
Life is a lyre, and fate the winds of heaven
That tread upon its chords with steps uneven;
The zephyrs' and the breezes' downy wings
Fan pleasures laughing on the living strings;
The wintry blasts that bid the lyre complain
Are love rejected, penury and pain;
And death the awful hurricane that rends
Its bars asunder, and its music ends.





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