Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IL FIOR DEGLI EROICI FURORI (SAXIFRAGA PYRAMIDALIS), by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bloom but once, and then I perish Last Line: To greet the boy. | ||||||||
I BLOOM but once, and then I perish; This plume of snow No sun or soft south wind will cherish -- 'T is drooping now. Black streams beneath me foam and thunder; Their icy breath, There where the rocks are rent asunder, Wooes me with death. Still like a fair imperial streamer I float and flaunt; I am no light luxurious dreamer, Whom dangers daunt. For me no delicate life-lover Will dare to bow; My pyramid of bloom shall cover No craven's brow. But should some youth on whom the splendor Of hope is high, Who loves with love superb and tender What cannot die, Pass by this dark and awful dwelling, He shall not shrink From slippery rock or sick waves swelling To the black brink; But stoop and pluck the song I utter Of death and joy: Yea, my free plume of snow shall flutter To greet the boy. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A CHRISTMAS LULLABY by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS AN EPISODE by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS FAREWELL (1) by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS LUX EST UMBRA DEI by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS TEMA CON VARIAZONI: PRELUDE by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS THE CAMERA OBSCURA by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS THE FALL OF A SOUL by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS THE JEWS' CEMETERY ON THE LIDO by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS THE SONNET by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS THYSELF by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS |
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