Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VIOLETS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poet's Biography First Line: A friend brought sweetest violets Last Line: "for thee his morning star he sets." Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Spring; Violets | ||||||||
A FRIEND brought sweetest violets, And laid them in my lap to-day, And straight the Winter afternoon Put on the brightness of the May. The silent flowers, with subtle breath, Beguiled away my thoughts of pain; "O heart," their voiceless odor said, "Put on thy robes of light again!" "For Winter wanes, and Spring returns Dear Spring, when all things lovely shine; And hidden ways and cloistered cells Grow radiant as with bloom divine. "That path cannot be wholly dark Which God hath sown with violets: Lo! on the earth, as in the sky, For thee His morning star he sets." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HEAVY VIOLETS by BARBARA GUEST THE YELLOW VIOLET by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT WAR IS KIND: 23 by STEPHEN CRANE SONNET by ALICE RUTH MOORE DUNBAR-NELSON HOW VIOLETS CAME BLUE by ROBERT HERRICK UNDER THE VIOLETS by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES THE FADED VIOLET by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH ARE THE CHILDREN AT HOME? by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER |
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