Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HAVE PATIENCE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The goblets all are broken Last Line: Are very near us. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Patience; Youth; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness | ||||||||
The goblets all are broken, The pleasant wine is spilt, The songs cease; if thou wilt, Listen, and hear truth spoken. We take thought for the morrow, And know not we shall see it; We look on death with sorrow, And cannot flee it. Youth passes like the lightning, Not to return again; Just for a little bright'ning The confines of a plain; Gilding the spires, and whitening The grave-stones and the slain. Youth passes like the odour From the white rose's cup, When the hot sun drinks up The dew that overflowed her: Then life forsakes the petals That had been very fair; No beauty lingers there, And no bee settles. But when the rose is dead, And the leaves fallen; And when the earth has spread A snow-white pall on; The thorn remains, once hidden By the green growth above it; A darksome guest unbidden, With none to love it. Manhood is turbulent, And old age tires; That, hath no still content, This, no desires. The present hath even less Joy than the past, And more cares fret it: -- Life is a weariness From first to last: -- Let us forget it. Fill high and deep: -- but how? The goblets all are broken. Nay then, have patience now: For this is but a token We soon shall have no need Of such to cheer us: The palm-branches, decreed, And crowns, to be our meed, Are very near us. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONOMA FIRE by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS by JOHN HOLLANDER WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE by JUNE JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 by JAMES JOYCE DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS by LEONIE ADAMS IT IS FINISHED' by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI ITALIA, IO TI SALUTO!' by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE HEART KNOWETH ITS OWN BITTERNESS' (2) by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI |
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