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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A VIOLET FOUND ON ALL SAINTS' DAY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poet's Biography First Line: Belated wanderer of the ways of spring Last Line: Life grows, through death, as beautiful as you. Subject(s): All Saints' Day; Flowers; Violets; Allhallowmas; Allhallows | |||
BELATED wanderer of the ways of spring, Lost in the chill of grim November rain, Would I could read the message that you bring And find in it the antidote for pain. Does some sad spirit out beyond the day, Far looking to the hours forever dead, Send you a tender offering to lay Upon the grave of us, the living dead? Or does some brighter spirit, unforlorn, Send you, my little sister of the wood, To say to some one on a cloudful morn, "Life lives through death, my brother, all is good?" With meditative hearts the others go The memory of their dead to dress anew. But, sister mine, bide here that I may know, Life grows, through death, as beautiful as you. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ALL SAINTS' DAY (1867) by ADA CAMBRIDGE ALL SAINTS' DAY (1868) by ADA CAMBRIDGE LA VITA NUOVA: SONNET OF BEATRICE DE PORTINARI, ON ALL SAINTS' DAY by DANTE ALIGHIERI ALL SOUL'S DAY by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON |
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