Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO - ., by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is bright before thee Last Line: The sunbeam of the heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Hope; Optimism | ||||||||
THE world is bright before thee, Its summer flowers are thine, Its calm blue sky is o'er thee, Thy bosom Pleasure's shrine; And thine the sunbeam given To Nature's morning hour, Pure, warm, as when from heaven It burst on Eden's bower. There is a song of sorrow, The death-dirge of the gay, That tells, ere dawn of morrow, These charms may melt away, That sun's bright beam be shaded, That sky be blue no more, The summer flowers be faded, And youth's warm promise o'er. Believe it not -- though lonely Thy evening home may be; Though Beauty's bark can only Float on a summer sea; Though Time thy bloom is stealing, There 's still beyond his art The wild-flower wreath of feeling, The sunbeam of the heart. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOPE IS NOT FOR THE WISE by ROBINSON JEFFERS SONNET by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON SPRING FLOODS by MAURICE BARING SONNET: 9. HOPE by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT by DEREK MAHON ALNWICK CASTLE by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK |
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