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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO VERNON LEE, by AMY LEHY
First Line: On bellosguardo, when the year was
Last Line: Hope unto you, and unto me despair.
Subject(s): Paget, Violet (vernon Lee) (1856-1935)
First Line: On bellosguardo, when the year was
Last Line: Hope unto you, and unto me despair.
Subject(s): Paget, Violet (vernon Lee) (1856-1935)
ON Bellosguardo, when the year was young,
We wandered, seeking for the daffodil
And dark anemone, whose purples fill
The peasant's plot, between the corn-shoots sprung.
Over the gray, low wall the olive flung
Her deeper grayness; far off, hill on hill
Sloped to the sky, which, pearly-pale and still,
Above the large and luminous landscape hung.
A snowy blackthorn flowered beyond my reach;
You broke a branch and gave it to me there;
I found for you a scarlet blossom rare.
Thereby ran on of Art and Life our speech;
And of the gifts the gods had given to each --
Hope unto you, and unto me Despair.
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