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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FLOWER OF BEAUTY, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet in her green dell the flower of beauty slumbers Last Line: Bleeds with its death-wound its wound of love for thee. Variant Title(s): Love Song;serenade Of A Loyal Martyr Subject(s): Love | |||
Sweet in her green dell the flower of beauty slumbers Lulled by the faint breezes sighing through her hair; Sleeps she and hears not the melancholy numbers Breathed to my sad lute 'mid the lonely air. Down from the high cliffs the rivulet is teeming To wind round the willow banks that lure him from above; O that in tears, from my rocky prison streaming, I too could glide to the bower of my love! Ah where the woodbines with sleepy arms have wound her, Opes she her eyelids at the dream of my lay, Listening, like the dove, while the fountains echo round her, To her lost mate's call in the forests far away. Come then, my bird! For the peace thou ever bearest, Still heaven's messenger of comfort to me, Come, this fond bosom, O faithfulest and fairest, Bleeds with its death-wound its wound of love for thee. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD ETHELSTAN: RUNILDA'S CHANT by GEORGE DARLEY |
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