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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO - (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at the fate of summer flowers Last Line: And never dies. | |||
LOOK at the fate of summer flowers, Which blow at daybreak, droop e'er evensong; And, grieved for their brief date, confess that ours, Measured by what we are and ought to be, Measured by all that, trembling, we foresee, Is not so long! If human Life do pass away, Perishing yet more swiftly than the flower, If we are creatures of a 'winter's' day; What space hath Virgin's beauty to disclose Her sweets, and triumph o'er the breathing rose? Not even an hour! The deepest grove whose foliage hid The happiest lovers Arcady might boast, Could not the entrance of this thought forbid: O be thou wise as they, soul-gifted Maid! Nor rate too high what must so quickly fade, So soon be lost. Then shall love teach some virtuous Youth "To draw, out of the object of his eyes," The while on thee they gaze in simple truth, Hues more exalted, "a refined Form," That dreads not age, nor suffers from the worm, And never dies. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ADMONITION [TO A TRAVELLER] by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AN APRIL MORNING by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ANECDOTE FOR FATHERS by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ANIMAL TRANQUILITY AND DECAY; A SKETCH by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AT FLORENCE by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AT THE GRAVE OF BURNS; SEVEN YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH BUONAPARTE by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH COMPOSED AT NEIDPATH CASTLE, 1803 by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH COMPOSED BY THE SEA-SIDE NEAR CALAIS [AUGUST 1802] by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
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