Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LINES ADDRESSED TO A COUSIN, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON First Line: She gave me a flow'ret, - and oh! It was sweet! Last Line: As sweet as the flower, though more lasting and fair! Subject(s): Flowers | ||||||||
She gave me a flow'ret, -- and oh! it was sweet! 'T was a pea, in full bloom, with its dark crimson leaf, And I said in my heart, this shall be thy retreat! 'T is one "sacred to Friendship" -- a stranger to grief. In my bosom I placed it, -- 't is withered and gone! All its freshness, its beauty, its fragrance had fled! And in sorrow I sigh'd, -- am I thus left alone? Is the gift which I cherish'd quite faded and dead? It has wither'd! but she who presented it blooms, Still fresh and unfading, in memory here And through life shall here flourish, 'mid danger and storms, As sweet as the flower, though more lasting and fair! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THEY SAW THE PROBLEM by MARK JARMAN SHAKE THE SUPERFLUX! by DAVID LEHMAN THE M??TIER OF BLOSSOMING by DENISE LEVERTOV TANKA DIARY (6) by HARRYETTE MULLEN VARIATIONS: 17 by CONRAD AIKEN FORCED BLOOM by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN A DREAM by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON |
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