Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, UNDER THE PINES, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE


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First Line: Under the pines with her hair in a tangle
Last Line: Still tossing her flowers she stands as of old.
Subject(s): Nature; Pine Trees; Trees


UNDER the pines with her hair in a tangle,
The skies in her eyes and the stars beaming out,
One rosy hand clasping the green boughs above her,
One daintily tossing the flowers about,
The Graces peep out from the depths of her dimples,
The Naiads are born where her eye-glances stray—
Under the pines, though the long years have vanished,
Under the pines she is standing to-day!

Under the pines!—ah, forever and ever
The Nymphs build their booths and the Naiads their cave,
And there 'neath the bowers she is tossing her flowers—
For Time cannot take back the picture he gave!
O, life with your strife, O, death with your darkness,
Ye have taken the tinsel and left me the gold!
For deep in my heart where the evergreens hide her,
Still tossing her flowers she stands as of old.





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