Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHEN BEAUTY DIES, by SOPHIE JEWETT Poet's Biography First Line: Should change fall in its fated hour Last Line: I shall seek these, when beauty dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen Subject(s): Beauty; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College | ||||||||
SHOULD change fall in its fated hour; Should music cease, should darkness be; Should star and sun and face and flower Turn dust of beauty endlessly, Beloved, what of you and me? I question how, by finer sense, The soul adventures ways unknown, Or what shall be its recompense For death? what loveliness atone For earth's green glory sadly flown? Yet, since I need nor touch, nor sight, Nor spoken word, however dear, To read your thought and will aright, To know your spirit, now and here, What has our fellowship to fear? Man's age-long doubt assails in vain The truth that lightens in your eyes, Or your still courage, bred of pain: Beyond the wreck of worlds and skies, I shall seek these, when beauty dies. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LINES WRITTEN TO A TRANSLATOR OF GREEK POETRY by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON THE LESSER BEAUTY by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON WORK by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON IN MEMORY: MISS JEWETT by GRACE ALLERTON ANDREWS HERE ENTER NOT by KATHARINE CANBY BALDERSTON I CLEANED MY HOUSE TODAY by KATHARINE CANBY BALDERSTON MY GARDEN by KATHARINE CANBY BALDERSTON A HEARTH-FIRE VERSE by SOPHIE JEWETT |
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