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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EVANESCENCE, by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD Poet's Biography First Line: What's the brightness of a brow? Last Line: So are lilies, so are roses! | |||
WHAT'S the brightness of a brow? What's a mouth of pearls and corals? Beauty vanishes like a vapor, Preach the men of musty morals! Should the crowd then, ages since, Have shut their ears to singing Homer, Because the music fled as soon As fleets the violets' aroma? Ah, for me, I thrill to see The bloom a velvet cheek discloses, Made of dust -- I well believe it! So are lilies, so are roses! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PHANTOMS ALL by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD A MOTHER-SONG by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD A SIGH by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD CAN'T by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD HOW WE BECAME A NATION [APRIL 15, 1774] by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD INSIDE PLUM ISLAND by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD MAGDALEN by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD OUR NEIGHBOR by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD THE HUNT by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD THE NUN AND THE HARP by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD |
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