Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DIRGE, by MARGARET BENGSTON SEVERNS


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First Line: Green were the fields that are barren and gray
Last Line: In love there is naught that is right but is wrong.
Subject(s): Winter


Green were the fields that are barren and gray;
Cold snow has effaced every trace of the day
When a spring that was lovely, too lovely to stay,
Was a heaven of fragrance, of sunshine, and song.

Grim destroyer of life, deadly winter, I pray,
Take all, if you must, of earth's beautiful day,
But leave me the dreams of a love gone away,
And my sojourn will seem just a trifle less long.

Ah, winter and time, you are partners in prey.
Snow yields to new spring, but time pauses to slay;
And a love that is killed turns forever to clay.
In love there is naught that is right but is wrong.





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