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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BALLAD OF HUMAN LIFE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we were girl and boy together Last Line: We're boy and girl, and lass and lad, and man and wife together. Subject(s): Togetherness | |||
WHEN we were girl and boy together, We toss'd about the flowers And wreath'd the blushing hours Into a posy green and sweet. I sought the youngest, best, And never was at rest Till I had laid them at thy fairy feet. But the days of childhood they were fleet, And the blooming sweet-briar-breath'd weather, When we were boy and girl together. Then we were lad and lass together, And sought the kiss of night Before we felt aright, Sitting and singing soft and sweet. The dearest thought of heart With thee 't was joy to part, And the greater half was thine, as meet. Still my eyelid's dewy, my veins they beat At the starry summer-evening weather, When we were lad and lass together. And we are man and wife together, Although thy breast, once bold With song, be clos'd and cold Beneath flowers' roots and birds' light feet. Yet sit I by thy tomb, And dissipate the gloom With songs of loving faith and sorrow sweet. And fate and darkling grave kind dreams do cheat, That, while fair life, young hope, despair and death are, We're boy and girl, and lass and lad, and man and wife together. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A WOMAN WITH FLAXEN HAIR IN NORFOLK HEARD by ROBERT KELLY YESTERDAY FROM MY FEVER by GALWAY KINNELL IF YOU COULD COME SOFTLY by AUDRE LORDE MISGIVINGS by WILLIAM MATTHEWS NOW THAT YOU'RE HERE by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS SILENT IN THE MOONLIGHT by ROBERT BLY DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DIRGE FOR WOLFRAM by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SAILORS' [OR MARINERS'] SONG by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |
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