Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, STANZAS, by GEORGE LUNT


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First Line: Oh lady, take these wilding flowers
Last Line: Owe all her beauties to the shade.
Subject(s): Flowers


OH lady, take these wilding flowers,
Earliest of Spring's reviving birth,
And emblems, in her freshening bowers,
Of all that's bright and best of earth.

In hue so sweet, so pure, so fair,
These symbols of divinest things,
Like maidens, court the summer air,
And shrink from Winter's icy wings.

But born from day's irradiant beam,
They caught these hues, so softly bright,
Live in the blaze, and only seem
More glorious for the dazzling light.

Far different law must she obey,
Their sister flower, the lovely maid,
And, shrinking from the glare away,
Owe all her beauties to the shade.





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