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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ROSE-BUD; TO A YOUNG LADY, by WILLIAM BROOME Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Queen of fragrance, lovely rose Last Line: And thou must be what they are now. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses; Transience; Impermanence | |||
QUEEN of fragrance, lovely Rose, The beauties of thy leaves disclose! -- But thou, fair Nymph, thyself survey In this sweet offspring of a day. That miracle of face must fail, Thy charms are sweet, but charms are frail: Swift as the short-lived flower they fly, At morn they bloom, at evening die: Though Sickness yet a while forbears, Yet Time destroys what Sickness spares: Now Helen lives alone in fame, And Cleopatra's but a name: Time must indent that heavenly brow, And thou must be what they are now. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FROM THE SPANISH by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON CHAMBER MUSIC: 17 by JAMES JOYCE SOUTHERN GOTHIC by DONALD JUSTICE THE BEACH IN AUGUST by WELDON KEES THE MAN SPLITTING WOOD IN THE DAYBREAK by GALWAY KINNELL |
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