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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THOUGHTS CONNECTED WITH TREES (1), by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Trees, gracious trees! - how rich a gift
Last Line: And a lost mother's eye gives back its holy light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Spring; Trees
First Line: Trees, gracious trees! - how rich a gift
Last Line: And a lost mother's eye gives back its holy light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Spring; Trees
TREES, gracious trees! -- how rich a gift ye are,
Crown of the earth! to human hearts and eyes!
How doth the thought of home, in lands afar,
Linked with your forms and kindly whisperings rise!
How the whole picture of a childhood lies
Oft 'midst your boughs forgotten, buried deep!
Till, gazing through them up the summer skies,
As hushed we stand, a breeze perchance may creep,
And old, sweet leaf-sounds reach the inner world
Where memory coils -- and lo! at once unfurled,
The past, a glowing scroll, before our sight
Spreads clear; while, gushing from their long-sealed urn,
Young thoughts, pure dreams, undoubting prayers return,
And a lost mother's eye gives back its holy light.
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