Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO MY CLASS: ON CERTAIN FRUITS AND FLOWERS SENT ... SICKNESS, by SIDNEY LANIER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If spicy-fringed pinks that blush and pale Last Line: Baltimore, christmas, 1880. Subject(s): Flowers; Fruit; Gifts & Giving | ||||||||
IF spicy-fringed pinks that blush and pale With passions of perfume, -- if violets blue That hint of heaven with odor more than hue, -- If perfect roses, each a holy Grail Wherefrom the blood of beauty doth exhale Grave raptures round, -- if leaves of green as new As those fresh chaplets wove in dawn and dew By Emily when down the Athenian vale She paced, to do observance to the May, Nor dreamed of Arcite nor of Palamon, -- If fruits that riped in some more riotous play Of wind and beam than stirs our temperate sun, -- If these the products be of love and pain, Oft may I suffer, and you love, again. BALTIMORE, Christmas, 1880. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GIVEAWAY by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY A VALENTINE FOR ERNEST MANN by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE SO IT'S TODAY by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR EVERYBODY KNOWS by DAVID IGNATOW ON VIOLET'S WAFERS, SENT ME WHEN I WAS ILL by SIDNEY LANIER THE GIFT; FOR MY DAUGHTER by GREGORY ORR ACCOMPLISHED FACTS by CARL SANDBURG A BIRTHDAY SONG by SIDNEY LANIER |
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