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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ELEGY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I have lov'd flowers that fade
Last Line: Beauty shall shed a tear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Rivers
First Line: I have lov'd flowers that fade
Last Line: Beauty shall shed a tear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Rivers
I HAVE lov'd flowers that fade,
Within whose magic tents
Rich hues have marriage made
With sweet unmemoried scents:
A honeymoon delight, --
A joy of love at sight,
That ages in an hour: --
My song be like a flower!
I have lov'd airs that die
Before their charm is writ
Along a liquid sky
Trembling to welcome it.
Notes, that with pulse of fire
Proclaim the spirit's desire,
Then die, and are nowhere: --
My song be like an air!
Die, song, die like a breath,
And wither as a bloom:
Fear not a flowery death,
Dread not an airy tomb!
Fly with delight, fly hence!
'T was thine love's tender sense
To feast; now on thy bier
Beauty shall shed a tear.
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