Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO THE READER, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poet's Biography First Line: These flowers I gathered by the highway side Last Line: And plant some seed before we pass away. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Transience; Impermanence | ||||||||
THESE flowers I gathered by the highway side, Where good and evil fate has cast my days: I dare not give them to you loosely tied; I'll twine them in a wreath -- to win more praise. Still fresh, the rose is weeping tear on tear; The pansy lifts her eye of purple hue; Then the calm lilies, dreamers of the mere, And budding corn; -- and there my life lies too. And thine too, reader, -- is't not even so? One fate is always ours in joy or woe, To weep love's tears, and think, but never know, How we have lost in dreaming spring's best day. Then comes the hour when we would rise from play, And plant some seed before we pass away. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FROM THE SPANISH by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON CHAMBER MUSIC: 17 by JAMES JOYCE SOUTHERN GOTHIC by DONALD JUSTICE THE BEACH IN AUGUST by WELDON KEES THE MAN SPLITTING WOOD IN THE DAYBREAK by GALWAY KINNELL THE SEEKONK WOODS by GALWAY KINNELL ALONE by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME AU BORD DE DEAU by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME BEFORE THE APOLLO OF THE BELVEDERE by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME |
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