Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A BIRTHDAY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography First Line: The summer tide has brought my natal hour Last Line: Scarce disentwined by keen philosophy! Subject(s): Birthdays | ||||||||
The summer tide has brought my natal hour: Comes it to usher days of bliss or bane? To set a seal on grief? or to empower With tenfold strength the tyranny of pain? Oh! might we summon back by charm of art, Those days of bloodless food and placid sleep, Which crept, exhaling from the mother's heart, So holy, dreamless, innocent, and deep! We leave the womb to slumber on the breast, We leave the breast to climb upon the knee, Soon beckoned off by dolour and unrest, Till our first sympathies are hard to see, Which passion's heavy overgrowths invest, Scarce disentwined by keen Philosophy! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BIRTHDAY (AUTOBIOGRAPHY) by ROBINSON JEFFERS POEM FOR MY TWENTIETH BIRTHDAY by KENNETH KOCH A HAPPY BIRTHDAY by TED KOOSER FOR A SOLDIER'S BIRTHDAY by EVE MERRIAM PICTURE THIS:/ FOR THE 100TH BIRTHDAY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER by ANDREW MOTION POEM FOR MY BIRTHDAY by LISEL MUELLER HER FIRST-BORN by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER |
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