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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A MOOD, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poet's Biography
First Line: Love's a flower, 'tis born and broken
Last Line: Bursts in air -- is gone -- too soon!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence
First Line: Love's a flower, 'tis born and broken
Last Line: Bursts in air -- is gone -- too soon!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence
LOVE'S a flower, 'tis born and broken,
Plucked apace, and hugged apart;
Evening comes, it clings -- poor token --
Dead and dry, on lover's heart.
Love's the rhyme of a summer minute
Woven close like hum of flies;
Sob of wind, and meaning in it
Dies away, as summer dies.
Love's a shimmery morning bubble
Puffed all gay from pipe of noon;
Spun aloft on breath of trouble --
Bursts in air -- is gone -- too soon!
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