Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO A YOUNG GIRL, by LUCIA CLARK MARKHAM


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TO A YOUNG GIRL, by                    
First Line: What will be left for you when romance goes
Last Line: When youth and laughter vanish in the night?
Subject(s): Girls


What will be left for you when romance goes
To tread its swift, inevitable way,
You who are like a minstrel's tender lay
Warbled across a land of dazzling snows?
You who are vivid as a Christmas rose
That blooms unwitting of the waiting dust,
What will uphold the tendrils of your trust
Where the harsh wind of disillusion blows?

What angel will assume the empty place,
Haunted and lonely, that the young god left?
What compensation will you find? What grace
To mend the shattered strings by sorrow cleft?
What alien drums will time your laggard flight
When youth and laughter vanish in the night?





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