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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG: BUTTERFLIES, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O child of joy! What idle life is thine! Last Line: The hopes thou chasest never to attain. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Poetry & Poets | |||
O CHILD of Joy! What idle life is thine! Thou, in these meadows, while thy skies are blue, And while thy joys are new to thee like wine, Chasest mad butterflies as children do. And lo, thou turnest from them to repine, Because it was not love thou didst pursue. O child of Hope! Thou sighest thy sad sighs, Mourning for that which is not nor can be. Where is the noon can match with thy sunrise? Whose is the heart shall win thy constancy? Thou, with thy foolish loves, mad butterflies, What dost thou ask of my sad heart and me? O child of Love, begotten for man's bliss! O child of Pleasure, nursed for thy own pain! Needs must I weep the day of thy distress, The fate that brushes at thy arm in vain, Thy skies of blue, thy broken happiness, The hopes thou chasest never to attain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB ESTHER; A YOUNG MAN'S TRAGEDY: 50 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT ESTHER; A YOUNG MAN'S TRAGEDY: 51 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 110. THE OASIS OF SIDI KHALED by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |
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