Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ROSES AT SEA, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love-children of the summer and the sun Last Line: Your fragrant soul escapes -- can memory bind? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Flowers; Roses | ||||||||
LOVE-CHILDREN of the summer and the sun. Alien to this salt air and stretch of sea, And beautiful in your bright witchery As the first rose, whose wooing was begun By the first nightingale, when day was done And over Eden's walks the wind blew free, And the winged wooers sang in ecstasy Of love and love and love -- till love was won. To-day you bless me with your beauty's spell, Roses from some dream-garden left behind, With breath half tenderness and half farewell, And gracious hopes with your sweet grace entwined: Will hopes, like buds, turn blossoms? Who shall tell? Your fragrant soul escapes -- can Memory bind? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WHISPER OF THE ROSE by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG THE WISDOM OF THE ROSE by ELSA BARKER LOVE PLANTED A ROSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES ROSES; A VILANELLE by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON THE PAINTER ON SILK by AMY LOWELL VARIATIONS: 17 by CONRAD AIKEN WORDS IN A CERTAIN APPROPRIATE MODE by HAYDEN CARRUTH A PAINTED FAN by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON |
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