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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WRITTEN IN ILL HEALTH AT THE CLOSE OF SPRING, by SUSAN EVANCE First Line: Where are the tearful smiles of youthful spring Last Line: Will breathe their lonely sighs across my grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hooper, Susan Evance Subject(s): Sickness; Spring; Illness | |||
Where are the tearful smiles of youthful Spring, That nursed the budding leaves and infant flowers? Ah! vanished -- like those dear regretted hours That fled away on Pleasure's fairy wing, When Hope light scattered o'er my glowing way Her rose-buds of delight. -- The cooling breeze, The wily sportive warblers of the trees, And garlands sweet that made the woods so gay, All, all are gone. -- Spring will return again, But never more for me its charms shall bloom, For me then slumbering in the dreary tomb The birds will sing and flow'rets blow in vain; While gentle gales, the budding trees that wave, Will breathe their lonely sighs across my grave. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SICK CHILD by RANDALL JARRELL AFTERNOON AT MACDOWELL by JANE KENYON HAVING IT OUT WITH MELANCHOLY by JANE KENYON SONNET: 9. HOPE by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES SONNET TO A VIOLET by SUSAN EVANCE |
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