Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CONSUMPTIVE, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY First Line: Bring flowers, fresh flowers, the fairest spring can yield Last Line: Bring flowers ere I depart. Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hearts; Life; Tuberculosis; Dead, The; Consumption (pathology) | ||||||||
Bring flowers, fresh flowers, the fairest spring can yield -- The poetry of earth, o'er every field Scattered in rich display; Bring flowers, fresh flowers, around my dying bed, The sweetness of the sunny south to shed, Ere I am called away. Bring flowers, fresh flowers, from every sheltered glade; I know their brilliant beauties soon will fade Beneath my feverish breath, But their bright hues seem to my wondering thought With promises of bliss and beauty fraught, Winning my heart from death. Bring flowers, fresh flowers; ere they again shall bloom I shall be lying in the narrow tomb, Mouldering in cold decay. Bring flowers, fresh flowers, that I may cheer my heart With pleasant images, ere I depart To tread the grave's dark way. Bring fruits, rich fruits, that blush on every bough Bending above the traveller's weary brow, And wooing him to taste; Bring fruits; methinks I never knew how sweet The joys that every day our senses greet, Till now, in life's swift waste. Bring fruits, rich fruits; earth's fairest gifts are vain To minister relief to the dull pain That steals upon my heart. Yet bring me fruits and flowers; they still have power To cheer, if not prolong life's little hour; Bring flowers ere I depart. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE IMMORALIST by NORMAN DUBIE THE SEAGULL; CHEKHOV AT YALTA by NORMAN DUBIE ON A TWIN AT TWO YEARS OLD DEAD OF A CONSUMPTION by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) CONSUMPTION by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL CURE PORCHES by MARGOT SCHILPP INDIAN GIRL'S BURIAL by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY THE CONSUMPTIVE GIRL; FROM A PICTURE by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY THE CONSUMPTIVE by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON THE CONSUMPTIVE by ROSALIND TRAVERS ABSENCE by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY |
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