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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ROSE THOU GAV'ST AT PARTING, by CHARLES SWAIN Poet's Biography
Last Line: To what thy faith hath been
Subject(s): Love – Complaints
Last Line: To what thy faith hath been
Subject(s): Love – Complaints
THE ROSE thou gav'''st at parting''"
Hast thou forgot the hour?
The moon was on the river,
The dew upon the flower:
Thy voice was full of tenderness,
But, ah! thy voice misleads;
The rose is like thy promises,
Its thorn is like thy deeds.
The winter cometh bleakly,
And dark the time must be;
But I can deem it summer
To what thou'''st prov'''d to me.
The snow that meets the sunlight
Soon hastens from the scene;
But melting snow is lasting,
To what thy faith hath been.
Other Poems of Interest...
ALMOST AN ELEGY by JOSEPH BRODSKY
TRIESTE - CIAO TO ITALY by SANDRA CISNEROS
NAMING PARTS by CAROL ANN DUFFY
UNHAPPY LOVE POEM by EDWARD HIRSCH
LOVE IS HIS NEMESIS: IT FOLLOWS HIM INTO SLEEP by DAVID IGNATOW