|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IF ONLY THOU ART TRUE, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)
First Line: If only a single rose is left
Last Line: If only thou art true?
Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy
First Line: If only a single rose is left
Last Line: If only thou art true?
Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy
IF only a single rose is left,
Why should the summer pine?
A blade of grass in a rocky cleft;
A single star to shine.
-- Why should I sorrow if all be lost,
If only thou art mine?
If only a single bluebell gleams
Bright on the barren heath,
Still of that flower the Summer dreams,
Not of his August wreath.
-- Why should I sorrow if thou art mine,
Love, beyond change and death?
If only once on a wintry day
The sun shines forth in the blue,
He gladdens the groves till they laugh as in May
And dream of the touch of the dew.
-- Why should I sorrow if all be false,
If only thou art true?
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!
Other Poems of Interest...
ARGUING BARTUSIAK by ALBERT GOLDBARTH
THE VISIONARY by EMILY JANE BRONTE
THE PROTESTATION by THOMAS CAREW
A VALEDICTION: OF MY NAME IN THE WINDOW by JOHN DONNE
ELEGY: 11. THE BRACELET; UPON THE LOSS OF HIS MISTRESS'S CHAIN by JOHN DONNE
WOMAN'S CONSTANCY by JOHN DONNE
NON SUM QUALIS ERAM BONAE SUB REGNO CYNARAE by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON
A GIFT OF SPRING by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)