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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
YEAR AFTER YEAR; A LOVE SONG, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poet's Biography First Line: Year after year the cowslips fill the meadow Last Line: I clasp my arms about thy neck and love thee to the last. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Love | |||
YEAR after year the cowslips fill the meadow, Year after year the skylarks thrill the air, Year after year, in sunshine or in shadow, Rolls the world round, love, and finds us as we were. Year after year, as sure as birds' returning, Or field-flowers' blossoming above the wintry mould, Year after year, in work, or mirth, or mourning, Love we with love's own youth, that never can grow old. Sweetheart and ladye-love, queen of boyish passion, Strong hope of manhood, content of age began; Loved in a hundred ways, each in a different fashion, Yet loved supremely, solely, as we never love but one. Dearest and bonniest! though blanched those curling tresses, Though loose clings the wedding-ring to that thin hand of thine, -- Brightest of all eyes the eye that love expresses! Sweetest of all lips the lips long since kissed mine! So let the world go round with all its sighs and sinning, Its mad shout o'er fancied bliss, its howl o'er pleasures past: That which it calls love's end to us was love's beginning: -- I clasp my arms about thy neck and love thee to the last. | 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 BY THE ALMA RIVER by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK DOUGLAS, DOUGLAS, TENDER AND TRUE by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK |
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