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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LINES, by MATHILDE BLIND Poet's Biography First Line: Thou camest with the coming spring! Last Line: Death falls one day like falling snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Love; Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness | |||
THOU camest with the coming Spring! With swallows, and the murmuring Of unloosed waters, with the birth Of daisies dimpling the green earth. And when the perfect rose of June Responded to the golden noon, My heart's deep core, suffused with bliss, Broke into flower beneath thy kiss. But now the swallows seaward fly, The winds in chorus wail, "Good-bye!" The dead leaves whirl, and like a leaf My heart shakes on the gusts of grief. And yet awhile earth's flowerless breast In lethal folds of snow will rest; On thee too heart, with all thy woe, Death falls one day like falling snow. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONOMA FIRE by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS by JOHN HOLLANDER WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE by JUNE JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 by JAMES JOYCE DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS by LEONIE ADAMS |
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