Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WITH FLOWERS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD


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First Line: I send to you a nosegay that but now
Last Line: Then love me, while thou'rt fair, ere youth is gone!
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Time; Youth; Dead, The


I SEND to you a nosegay that but now
I chose among the full-blown blossoms gay.
Had one not gathered them at eve to-day
The morrow morn had found them fallen low.

Let this ensample speak to you, and show
That even your beauties, in their flower-array,
Ere little time must fade and fall away
And like the flowers in one swift moment go

Time passes swift, my love, ah! swift it flies!
Yet no -- Time passes not, but we -- we pass,
And soon shall lie outstretched beneath a stone.

And for this love we talk of -- Death replies
Forever not one word of it, alas! . . .
Then love me, while thou'rt fair, ere youth is gone!





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