Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A BALLADE OF OLD SWEETHEARTS, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poet's Biography First Line: Who is it that weeps for the last year's flowers Last Line: Ah! Lost are the loves of the long ago. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of | ||||||||
WHO is it that weeps for the last year's flowers When the wood is aflame with the fires of spring, And we hear her voice in the lilac bowers As she croons the runes of the blossoming? For the same old blooms do the new years bring, But not to our lives do the years come so, New lips must kiss and new bosoms cling. Ah! lost are the loves of the long ago. Ah me! for a breath of those morning hours When Alice and I went a-wandering Through the shining fields, and it still was ours To kiss and to feel we were shuddering Ah me! when a kiss was a holy thing How sweet were a smile from Maud, and oh! With Phyllis once more to be whispering Ah! lost are the loves of the long ago. But it cannot be that old Time devours Such loves as was Annie's and mine we sing, And surely beneficent heavenly powers Save Muriel's beauty from perishing; And if in some golden evening To a quaint old garden I chance to go, Shall Marion no more by the wicket sing? Ah! lost are the loves of the long ago. L'ENVOI In these lives of ours do the new years bring Old loves as old flowers again to blow? Or do new lips kiss and new bosoms cling? Ah! lost are the loves of the long ago. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ROSE AND MURRAY by CONRAD AIKEN THOUGH WE NO LONGER POSSESS IT by MARK JARMAN THE GLORY OF THE DAY WAS IN HER FACE by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON LOVE COME AND GONE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON CHAMBER MUSIC: 28 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 33 by JAMES JOYCE A SCOTCH SONG by JOANNA BAILLIE A BALLAD OF LONDON (TO H.W. MASSINGHAM) by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE AFTER THE WAR by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE WHAT OF THE DARKNESS?; TO THE HAPPY DEAD PEOPLE by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE |
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