Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WANDERER AND THE NIGHT-FLOWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call back your odours, lovely flowers! Last Line: "looking alone to heaven!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes | ||||||||
"CALL back your odours, lovely flowers! From the night-winds call them back; And fold your leaves till the laughing hours Come forth in the sunbeam's track! "The lark lies couched in her grassy nest, And the honey-bee is gone, And all bright things are away to rest -- Why watch ye here alone? "Is not your world a mournful one, When your sisters close their eyes, And your soft breath meets not a lingering tone Of song in the starry skies? "Take ye no joy in the dayspring's birth When it kindles the sparks of dew? And the thousand strains of the forest's mirth, Shall they gladden all but you? "Shut your sweet bells till the fawn comes out On the sunny turf to play, And the woodland child with a fairy shout Goes dancing on its way!" "Nay! let our shadowy beauty bloom When the stars give quiet light, And let us offer our faint perfume On the silent shrine of night. "Call it not wasted, the scent we lend To the breeze, when no step is nigh: Oh, thus for ever the earth should send Her grateful breath on high! "And love us as emblems, night's dewy flowers, Of hopes unto sorrow given, That spring through the gloom of the darkest hours Looking alone to heaven!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BUMS, ON WAKING by JAMES DICKEY A FOLK SINGER OF THE THIRTIES by JAMES DICKEY WANDERER IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY by CLARENCE MAJOR THE WANDERER by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN LONG GONE by STERLING ALLEN BROWN BLACK SHEEP by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON A VAGABOND SONG by BLISS CARMAN A DIRGE (1) by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS |
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