Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MAY (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet life is dead / not so Last Line: And blossoms where I tread. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Life; May (month); Dead, The | ||||||||
Sweet Life is dead. -- Not so: I meet him day by day, Where bluest fountains flow And trees are white as snow For it is time of May. Even now from long ago He will not say me nay; He is most fair to see; And if I wander forth, I know He wanders forth with me. But Life is dead to me; The worn-out year was failing West winds took up a wailing To watch his funeral: Bare poplars shivered tall And lank vines stretched to see; 'Twixt him and me a wall Was frozen of earth like stone With brambles overgrown; Chill darkness wrapped him like a pall And I am left alone. How can you call him dead? He buds out everywhere: In every hedgerow rank, On every mossgrown bank I find him here and there. He crowns my willing head With may flowers white and red, He rears my tender heartsease bed; He makes my branch to bud and bear, And blossoms where I tread. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND IT IS FINISHED' by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI ITALIA, IO TI SALUTO!' by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE HEART KNOWETH ITS OWN BITTERNESS' (2) by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI |
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