Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE IVORY GATE; AN UNFINISHED DRAFT, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand buds are breaking / their prisons silently Last Line: The snow falls by thousands into the sea. Subject(s): Nature; Spring | ||||||||
A thousand buds are breaking Their prisons silently; A thousand birds are making Their nests in leafy tree; A thousand babes are waking On woman's breast to-day; . . . . Is born to man, to-day Beneath the sun of May: Whence come ye, babes of flowers, and, Children, whence come ye? The snow falls by thousands into the sea; A thousand blossoms covers The forsaken forest, And on its branches hovers The lark's song thousandfold; And maidens hear from lovers A thousand secrets guessed In June's abundant breast Before and yet are blessed -- Whence, blossoms rich, birds bold, beloved maidens, whence come ye? The snow falls by thousands into the sea; A thousand flowers are shedding Their leaves all dead and dry; A thousand birds are threading Their passage through the sky; A thousand mourners treading The tearful churchyard way In funeral array: Birds, whither fly ye? -- whither, dead, pass ye? The snow falls by thousands into the sea. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPRING LEMONADE by TONY HOAGLAND A SPRING SONG by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN SPRING'S RETURN by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD SPRING FLOODS by MAURICE BARING SPRING IN WINTER by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES SPRING ON THE PRAIRIE by HERBERT BATES THE FARMER'S BOY: SPRING by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD BALLAD OF HUMAN LIFE by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DIRGE FOR WOLFRAM by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SAILORS' [OR MARINERS'] SONG by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |
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