TO tenderest affection This Music owes its birth: Two flowers inspired reflection With their surrounding earth: They bring a triune token To tell of love unbroken, And longings which unspoken Might fail of guardian worth. Thy lily pure, disdaining Dark's amorous advance, Shrinks up as tho' retaining The Sun's impassioned glance: Let Goodness only sue thee, And with his beauty woo thee, So Wrong, if he pursue thee, Shall win no countenance! The violet, who breezes Lets fondly o'er her play, From the rude blast that freezes Turns a shy face away: Be thou as one all tender When loving signs befriend her, But who no rough offender Deigns even to survey! A flower-bespangled garden, The Paradise of June, All blossomless will harden 'Neath March's icy moon: Thy heart be frigid never! Bright Summer haunt it ever, And Love crown each endeavour With ripe luxuriance soon. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GREEN MOUNTAIN IDYL by HAYDEN CARRUTH SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. SIBLEY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: THE VILLAGE ATHEIST by EDGAR LEE MASTERS GOOD FRIDAY HYMN by GEORGE SANTAYANA |