Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FLOWERS, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER


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First Line: We have left behind us
Last Line: And fade in the light he scatters.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller
Subject(s): Flowers


WE have left behind us
The riches of the meadows, and now come
To visit the virgin primrose where she dwells,
Midst harebells and the wild-wood hyacinths.
'Tis there she keeps her court. Dost see yon bank
The sun is kissing? Near -- go near! for there,
('Neath those broad leaves, amidst yon straggling grasses,
Immaculate odours from the violet
Spring up for ever: Like sweet thoughts that come
Wing'd from the maiden fancy, and fly off
In music to the skies, and there are lost,
These ever-steaming odours seek the sun
And fade in the light he scatters.





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