Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A NEW YEAR'S BURDEN, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the grass sweet airs are blown Last Line: The love once ours, but ours long hours ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Holidays; Love; New Year | ||||||||
ALONG the grass sweet airs are blown Our way this day in Spring. Of all the songs that we have known Now which one shall we sing? Not that, my love, ah no!-- Not this, my love? why, so!-- Yet both were ours, but hours will come and go. The grove is all a pale frail mist, The new year sucks the sun. Of all the kisses that we kissed Now which shall be the one? Not that, my love, ah no!-- Not this, my love?--heigh-ho For all the sweets that all the winds can blow! The branches cross above our eyes, The skies are in a net: And what's the thing beneath the skies We two would most forget? Not birth, my love, no, no,-- Not death, my love, no, no,-- The love once ours, but ours long hours ago. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NEW YEAR'S POEM by MARGARET AVISON A SPEED OF HISTORY by MARGARET AVISON NEW YEAR'S DAY by DAVID LEHMAN LINES FOR THE NEW YEAR by JULIE CARR I AM RUNNING INTO A NEW YEAR by LUCILLE CLIFTON FOR THE NEW YEAR (2) by ROBERT CREELEY FOUND' (FOR A PICTURE) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI |
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