|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WORD OF SUMMER, by ELSA BARKER Poet's Biography
First Line: Dropping roses from her hand
Last Line: "then begin again."
Subject(s): Summer
First Line: Dropping roses from her hand
Last Line: "then begin again."
Subject(s): Summer
Dropping roses from her hand,
Came dear Summer down the land,
With her hair a tawny banner
By the breezes fanned.
And she looked and laughed at me,
Where I sat all mournfully,
Counting over my lost labors
Near a cypress tree.
And she said: "Oh! why repine?
All these patient works of mine—
Leaves and flowers and fragrant apples—
I must soon resign.
"Not one blossom will remain:
But do I, like thee, complain?
Nay, I pause and rest a season,
Then begin again."
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!
Other Poems of Interest...
THE ADVANCE OF SUMMER by MARY KINZIE
THE SUMMER IMAGE by LEONIE ADAMS
CANOEBIAL BLISS by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY
THE END OF SUMMER by HENRY MEADE BLAND
THE FARMER'S BOY: SUMMER by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD
SONNET: 14. APPROACH OF SUMMER by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES
JULY IN WASHINGTON by ROBERT LOWELL
ODE TO THE END OF SUMMER by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY
A PRAYER FOR LOVE by ELSA BARKER