Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THERESE, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poet's Biography First Line: A rose once pressed against thy lips Last Line: And die upon my heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses | ||||||||
A ROSE once pressed against thy lips, Then gayly flung to me, Is all the gift I treasure up In memory of thee; It bringeth back that golden time, Too beautiful to last, The glad and love-lit past, Therese, The glad and love-lit past! Then comes the memory of the change Which fell upon thy heart, As falls the frost upon the rose When summer suns depart; And now returns that weary time With doubts and glooms o'ercast, The sad and mournful past, Therese, The sad and mournful past! Young flowers, fair, quickly fading flowers, Love's meetest emblems they, For naught in life so fitly marks Its swift and sure decay; O type of that frail, passing faith So fondly set apart To wither in its early dew, And die upon my heart! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WHISPER OF THE ROSE by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG THE WISDOM OF THE ROSE by ELSA BARKER LOVE PLANTED A ROSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES ROSES; A VILANELLE by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON THE PAINTER ON SILK by AMY LOWELL VARIATIONS: 17 by CONRAD AIKEN WORDS IN A CERTAIN APPROPRIATE MODE by HAYDEN CARRUTH ARIADNE by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT |
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