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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
JUANA, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Again I see you, ah my queen Last Line: For you that not remember it. Subject(s): Love; Old Age | |||
AGAIN I see you, ah my queen, Of all my old loves that have been, The first love, and the tenderest; Do you remember or forget— Ah me, for I remember yet— How the last summer days were blest? Ah lady, when we think of this, The foolish hours of youth and bliss, How fleet, how sweet, how hard to hold. How old we are, ere spring be green. You touch the limit of eighteen And I am twenty winters old. My rose, that mid the red roses, Was brightest, ah, how pale she is. Yet keeps the beauty of her prime; Child, never Spanish lady's face Was lovely with so wild a grace; Remember the dead summertime. Think of our loves, our feuds of old, And how you gave your chain of gold To me for a peace offering; And how all night I lay awake To touch and kiss it for your sake,— To touch and kiss the lifeless thing. Lady, beware for all we say, This love shall live another day, Awakened from his deathly sleep; The heart that once has been your shrine For other loves is too divine; A home, my dear, too wide and deep. What did I say,—why do I dream? Why should I struggle with the stream Whose waves return not any day? Close heart, and eyes, and arms from me; Farewell, farewell, so must it be, So runs, so runs, the world away. The season bears upon its wing The swallows and the songs of spring, And days that were, and days that flit; The loved lost hours are far away; And hope and fame are scattered spray For me, that gave you love a day For you that not remember it. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT EIGHTY I CHANGE MY VIEW by DAVID IGNATOW FAWN'S FOSTER-MOTHER by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE DEER LAY DOWN THEIR BONES by ROBINSON JEFFERS OLD BLACK MEN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A WINTER ODE TO THE OLD MEN OF LUMMUS PARK, / MIAMI, FLORIDA by DONALD JUSTICE AFTER A LINE BY JOHN PEALE BISHOP by DONALD JUSTICE TO HER BODY, AGAINST TIME by ROBERT KELLY SONG FROM A COUNTRY FAIR by LEONIE ADAMS A DEAD WOMAN by ALFRED DE MUSSET |
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