Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SNOWED UNDER, by ALICE CARY


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First Line: Come let us talk together
Last Line: The life of endless may.
Subject(s): Snow


COME let us talk together,
While the sunset fades and dies,
And, darling, look into my heart,
And not into my eyes.

Let us sit and talk together
In the old, familiar place,
But look deep down into my heart,
Not up into my face.

And with tender pity shield me --
I am just a withered bough --
I was used to have your praises,
And you cannot praise me now.

You would nip the blushing roses;
They were blighted long ago,
But the precious roots, my darling,
Are alive beneath the snow.

And in the coming spring-time
They will all to beauty start --
Oh, look not in my face, beloved,
But only in my heart!

You will not find the little buds,
So tender and so bright;
They are snowed so deeply under,
They will never come to light.

So look, I pray you, in my heart,
And not into my face,
And think about that coming spring
Of greenness and of grace,

When from the winter-laden bough
The weight of snow shall drop away,
And give it strength to spring into
The life of endless May.





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