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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SWEETS THAT DIE, by LANGDON ELWYN MITCHELL Poet's Biography First Line: How fades that native breath Last Line: Their immortality! Alternate Author Name(s): Varley, John Philip | |||
How fades that native breath The rose exhales, Whenas her bloom is o'er! Altho' her petals on the evening gales Are wafted by, a fleet of fairy sails, She is, alas! no more. And love dies like the rose, And fills the air With many a deep drawn sigh: Shall I not both embalm with sacred care, That they may have, in sweetly-breathed air, Their immortality! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FEAR by LANGDON ELWYN MITCHELL THE WAYSIDE VIRGIN by LANGDON ELWYN MITCHELL TO ONE BEING OLD by LANGDON ELWYN MITCHELL WRITTEN AT THE END OF A BOOK by LANGDON ELWYN MITCHELL BALLROOM DARK by CLARENCE MAJOR THE SAGA OF THE SMALL-BREASTED WOMAN by KAREN SWENSON BLUE-BUTTERFLY DAY by ROBERT FROST THE TESTAMENT OF CRESSEID by ROBERT HENRYSON ODE ON MELANCHOLY by JOHN KEATS FOR MY OWN TOMBSTONE by MATTHEW PRIOR |
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