Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO VERNON LEE, by AMY LEHY First Line: On bellosguardo, when the year was Last Line: Hope unto you, and unto me despair. Subject(s): Paget, Violet (vernon Lee) (1856-1935) | ||||||||
ON Bellosguardo, when the year was young, We wandered, seeking for the daffodil And dark anemone, whose purples fill The peasant's plot, between the corn-shoots sprung. Over the gray, low wall the olive flung Her deeper grayness; far off, hill on hill Sloped to the sky, which, pearly-pale and still, Above the large and luminous landscape hung. A snowy blackthorn flowered beyond my reach; You broke a branch and gave it to me there; I found for you a scarlet blossom rare. Thereby ran on of Art and Life our speech; And of the gifts the gods had given to each -- Hope unto you, and unto me Despair. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RAINY SEASON by CLARENCE MAJOR THE WINDING BANKS OF ERNE; OR, THE EMIGRANT'S ADIEU TO HIS BIRTHPLACE by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM WELCOME by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) WRITTEN [OR LINES] IN A YOUNG LADY'S ALBUM by THOMAS HOOD THE OLD BRIDGE AT FLORENCE; SONNET by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW WESTWARD BOUND by BETSY H. ASHMORE A FAIRY TALE by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY |
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