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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poet's Biography First Line: The rocks, the rocks, among the rocks Last Line: My only lover lives. Subject(s): Love | |||
THE rocks, the rocks, among the rocks My only lover lives; To me the plain, to me the main, Nor fear nor pleasure gives. I love not in the sunny day To weed and till the ground, While my wild lover far away, Hunts with his lazy hound. Nor would I be a sailor's wife, Too far from me is he; For I must toil, and I must strive, While he is on the sea. Give me a lover to my cheek, A husband to my arms, Nor would I other dowry seek, Than hills and rocky farms. The meadow's calms, the ocean's shocks, Each ruins or deceives; The rocks, the rocks, among the rocks, My only lover lives. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD TO A FRIEND by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD |
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