Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MINNIE AND HER DOVE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER


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MINNIE AND HER DOVE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two days she miss'd her dove, and then alas
Last Line: Eclipse thy memory of the kite and dove.
Subject(s): Doves; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


Two days she missed her dove, and then, alas!
A knot of soft gray feathers met her view,
So light, their stirring hardly broke the dew
That hung on the blue violets and the grass;
A kite had struck her fondling as he passed;
And o'er that feeling, downy, epitaph
The poor child lingered, weeping; her gay laugh
Was mute that day, her little heart o'ercast.
Ah! Minnie, if thou livest, thou wilt prove
Intenser pangs -- less tearful, though less brief;
Thou'lt weep for dearer death and sweeter love,
And spiritual woe, of woes the chief,
Until the full-grown wings of human grief
Eclipse thy memory of the kite and dove.





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