Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, INCONSTANCY, by PHOEBE CARY


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First Line: All in a dreary april day
Last Line: "in the summer heart of my passion flower!"
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


ALL in a dreary April day,
When the light of my sky was changed to gloom,
My first love drooped and faded away,
While I sorrowed over its waning bloom.

And I buried it, saying bitterly,
As I watered its grave with a rain of tears;
"No flower of love will bloom for me
Save this one, dead in my early years!"

But the May-time pushes the April out,
And the summer of life succeeds the May;
And the heaviest clouds of grief and doubt,
In weeping, weep themselves away.

And ere I had ceased to mourn above
My cherished flower's untimely tomb,
Right out of the grave of that buried love
There sprang another and fairer bloom.

And I cried, "Sleep softly, my perished rose,
My pretty bud of an April hour;
While I live in the beauty that burns and glows,
In the summer heart of my passion flower!"





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