Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SUGGESTED BY A BUNCH OF ENGLISH GRAPES, by THOMAS HOOD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We did not wear a leafy crown Last Line: To brim her dimpled lap. Subject(s): Grapes | ||||||||
WE did not wear a leafy crown, And darkly glance to darker glance, Under the green leaf and the brown, Wooing the eyes of maids of France With very bloomy down: We stain'd not hands with purple blood In golden Arno's pleasant vale, Where the proud Brothers quench'd the stain, And saw two murderers in the flood With faces guilty-pale: Nor on the sunny hills of Spain We used to drink the sun and twine Long amorous tendrils to entrap The careless finger of maid to linger And pluck us from the trembling vine To brim her dimpled lap. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CATAWBA WINE by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE GRAPE-VINE SWING by WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS TO A BUNCH OF GRAPES; RIPENING IN MY WINDOW by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES CLUSTERED GRAPES by HELEN BURWELL CHAPIN JONES ENLIGHTENED by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON GRAPES FROM THORNS by DOROTHY HOMANS FEAR by HAZEL COLLISTER HUTCHINSON BURGUNDY by GLADYS ADELINA LEWIS |
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