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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 THE SEEKONK WOODS by GALWAY KINNELL BELINDA'S RECOVERY FROM SICKNESS by WILLIAM BROOME |
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