Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SHADOW OF A FLOWER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS


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First Line: Twas a dream of olden days
Last Line: -- shadows of buried flowers!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


TWAS a dream of olden days
That Art, by some strange power,
The visionary form could raise
From the ashes of a flower.

That a shadow of the rose,
By its own meek beauty bowed,
Might slowly, leaf by leaf, unclose,
Like pictures in a cloud.

Or the hyacinth, to grace,
As a second rainbow, spring;
Of summer's path a dreary trace,
A fair, yet mournful thing!

For the glory of the bloom
That a flush around it shed,
And the soul within, the rich perfume,
Where were they? Fled, all fled!

Naught but the dim, faint line
To speak of vanished hours. --
Memory! what are joys of thine?
-- Shadows of buried flowers!





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