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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: BARBERRIES, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poet's Biography
First Line: In scarlet clusters o'er the gray stone-wall
Last Line: But your plebeian beauty is in vain.
Subject(s): Barberries
First Line: In scarlet clusters o'er the gray stone-wall
Last Line: But your plebeian beauty is in vain.
Subject(s): Barberries
IN scarlet clusters o'er the gray stone-wall
The barberries lean in thin autumnal air:
Just when the fields and garden-plots are bare,
And ere the green leaf takes the tint of fall,
They come, to make the eye a festival!
Along the road, for miles, their torches flare.
Ah, if your deep-sea coral were but rare
(The damask rose might envy it withal),
What bards had sung your praises long ago,
Called you fine names in honey-worded books--
The rosy tramps of turnpike and of lane,
September's blushes, Ceres' lips aglow,
Little Red-Ridinghoods, for your sweet looks!--
But your plebeian beauty is in vain.
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