Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FIRST LOVE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time was you heard the music of a sigh Last Line: Whose steadfast beauty lights till death your days. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Love - Unrequited | ||||||||
TIME was you heard the music of a sigh, And Love awoke; and with it Song was born, -- Song glad as young birds carol in the morn, And tender as the blue and brooding sky, When all the earth feels Spring's warm witchery, And with fresh flowers her bosom doth adorn; And lovers love, and cannot love forlorn, Since Love is of the gods, and may not die. In after years may come some wildering light, -- Some sweet delusion, followed for a space, -- Such fitful fire-flies flash athwart the night, But fade before the shining of that face Which shines upon you still in Death's despite, Whose steadfast beauty lights till death your days. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNET by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON TUTTO E SCIOLTO by JAMES JOYCE APPULDURCOMBE PARK by AMY LOWELL TALE OF THE MAYOR'S SON by GLYN MAXWELL ELEGY FOR AN ENEMY by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET ESSAY ON WHAT I THINK ABOUT MOST by ANNE CARSON A PAINTED FAN by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON |
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