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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET, by EMILE DESCHAMPS DE SAINT AMAND First Line: When time, who changes men and everything Last Line: So love the spot, which thoughts of her convey. Alternate Author Name(s): Deschamps, Emile | |||
WHEN Time, who changes men and everything, O'er this fair spot shall cast forgetfulness, And oak and fir to ground in ruin fling, Corpses which must decay and worms possess,-- Who knows if from the chaos ages bring, Restoring woods and long past loveliness, History to our posterity shall sing, What kings used here their prey in chase to press? Perhaps to future far-off times my strain Will sing--'She passed two months at Montfontaine, And those two months for us passed as a day.' And hence it is that flowers and timid does, And birds, and poets who love-lays compose, So love the spot, which thoughts of her convey. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE UNKNOWN by EMILE DESCHAMPS DE SAINT AMAND THE SONG OF THE MAD WOMAN'S SON by KAREN SWENSON IN THE MORNING by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR TO LUCASTA, [ON] GOING BEYOND THE SEAS by RICHARD LOVELACE SEVEN AGES OF MAN, FR. AS YOU LIKE IT by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE COLLAR-BONE OF A HARE by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THERE IS NOTHING STRANGE by ARCHILOCHUS BIRD CONVERSATIONS, SELECTION by FARID OD-DIN MOHAMMAD EBN EBRAHIM ATTAR |
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