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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A WRAITH OF SUMMER-TIME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: In its color, shade and shine
Last Line: And the rocking lily never even rustles as it rings!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Change; Flowers; Roses; Summer
First Line: In its color, shade and shine
Last Line: And the rocking lily never even rustles as it rings!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Change; Flowers; Roses; Summer
In its color, shade and shine,
'Twas a summer warm as wine,
With an effervescent flavoring of flowered bough and vine,
And a fragrance and a taste
Of ripe roses gone to waste,
And a dreamy sense of sun- and moon-and starlight interlaced.
'Twas a summer such as broods
O'er enchanted solitudes,
Where the hand of Fancy leads us through voluptuary moods,
And with lavish love outpours
All the wealth of out-of-doors,
And woos our feet o'er velvet paths and honeysuckle floors.
'Twas a summer-time long dead, --
And its roses, white and red,
And its reeds and water-lilies down along the river-bed, --
O they all are ghostly things --
For the ripple never sings,
And the rocking lily never even rustles as it rings!
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