Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO MIRIMOND (HER BIRTHDAY, IN DECEMBER), by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN


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TO MIRIMOND (HER BIRTHDAY, IN DECEMBER), by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dost think that time, to whom stars vainly sue
Last Line: If thou, when all is gone, wouldst still have all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Beauty; Time


(HER BIRTHDAY, IN DECEMBER)

DOST think that Time, to whom stars vainly sue,
Will for thy beauty keep one fixèd place?
Or that he may, o'er-weighed with seasons due,
Forget one Spring where veinlet trendrils lace
Rose over rose to make this flower, thy face?
Look round thee now, dear dupe of sweet hey-day!
Of what once blooming joy canst thou find trace
Save in the bosom of a cold decay?
What violet of Summer's yester sway
Usurps these clouds to throne her slender moon?
Look on the wrinkling year, the shrunken way,
The wintry bier of all that gaudy shone,
And gather love ere loveliness wear pall,
If thou, when all is gone, wouldst still have all.





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