Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DOREEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poet's Biography First Line: Her curled and rosy beauty Last Line: That it must pass. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement | ||||||||
HER curled and rosy beauty So shining was, The heart went crying and sighing That it must pass. With the gold and the silver She did adorn her: The heart went weeping and weeping That it must mourn her. Like apple-blossom and clove-pink, Her white and red; God when He made her colour Laughed as He made. Little gold head of curls Shining and bright of her; God when He made her hair Took delight of her. Tall as a poplar tree, Slight as a spear, Graceful as is a swan On a still mere. All so harmless her beauty, Innocent, mild, Like a young lamb in the pasture, Like a young child. With the rose and the scarlet She did bedeck her; Radiant as a new rose Fresh from the Maker. All so dewy, so tender, Her beauty was, The heart dropped tears in the silence That it must pass. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HUNGERFIELD by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE MOURNER by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN HECUBA MOURNS by MARILYN NELSON THERE IS NO GOD BUT by AGHA SHAHID ALI IF I COULD MOURN LIKE A MOURNING DOVE by FRANK BIDART |
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