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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A PLEA FOR LOVE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poet's Biography First Line: The summer brook flows in the bed Last Line: The tenderest tales are often hearkened. Subject(s): Love | |||
I. THE summer brook flows in the bed, The winter torrent tore asunder; The sky-lark's gentle wings are spread, Where walk the lightning and the thunder: And thus you'll find the sternest soul The greatest tenderness concealing, And minds, that seem to mock control, Are ordered by some fairy feeling. II. Then, maiden! start not from the hand That's hardened by the swaying sabre -- The pulse beneath may be as bland As evening after day of labour: And, maiden! start not from the brow That thought has knit, and passion darkened -- In twilight hours, 'neath forest bough, The tenderest tales are often hearkened. | 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 CLARE'S DRAGOONS by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS FONTENOY by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF EOGHAN RUADH (OWEN ROE) O'NEIL by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS |
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