Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO DELIA: 30, by SAMUEL DANIEL


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First Line: I once may see when years shall wreck my wrong
Last Line: But phoenix-like shall make her live anew.
Subject(s): Beauty; Love


I once may see when years shall wreck my wrong,
When golden hairs shall change to silver wire,
And those bright rays that kindle all this fire
Shall fail in force, their working not so strong:
Then beauty, now the burden of my song,
Whose glorious blaze the world doth so admire,
Must yield up all to tyrant time's desire;
Then fade those flowers which decked her pride so long.
When if she grieve to gaze her in her glass,
Which then presents her winter-withered hue,
Go you, my verse, go tell her what she was,
For what she was she best shall find in you.
Your fiery heat lets not her glory pass,
But phoenix-like shall make her live anew.





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