Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO DAFFODILS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON


Poetry Explorer

Classic and Contemporary Poetry

TO DAFFODILS, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: O yellow flowers that herrick sung!
Last Line: O yellow flowers!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Daffodils; Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Poetry & Poets


(TO A. J. M.)

O YELLOW flowers by HERRICK sung!
O yellow flowers that danced and swung
In WORDSWORTH'S verse, and now to me,
Unworthy, from this 'pleasant lea,'
Laugh back, unchanged and ever young; --

Ah, what a text to us o'erstrung,
O'erwrought, o'erreaching, hoarse of lung,
You teach by that immortal glee,
O yellow flowers!

We, by the Age's oestrus stung,
Still hunt the New with eager tongue,
Vexed ever with the Old, but ye,
What ye have been ye still shall be,
When we are dust the dust among,
O yellow flowers!





Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!


Other Poems of Interest...
Home: PoetryExplorer.net