Classic and Contemporary Poetry
O YE HOURS!, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ye hours! Ye sunny hours! Last Line: "question not the hours!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Time | ||||||||
O YE hours! ye sunny hours! Floating lightly by, Are ye come with birds and flowers, Odours and blue sky? "Yes! we come, again we come, Through the wood-paths free: Bringing many a wanderer home, With the bird and bee." O ye hours! ye sunny hours! Are ye wafting song? Doth wild music stream in showers All the groves among? "Yes! the nightingale is there While the starlight reigns, Making young leaves and sweet air Tremble with her strains" O ye hours! ye sunny hours! In your silent flow, Ye are mighty, mighty powers! Bring ye bliss or woe? "Ask not this -- oh! seek not this! Yield your hearts awhile To the soft wind's balmy kiss, And the heaven's bright smile. "Throw not shades of anxious thought O'er the glowing flowers! We are come with sunshine fraught, Question not the hours!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEVEN EYES: FINAL SECTION by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: COME OCTOBER by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN SLOWLY: I FREQUENTLY SLOWLY WISH by LYN HEJINIAN ALL THE DIFFICULT HOURS AND MINUTES by JANE HIRSHFIELD A DAY IS VAST by JANE HIRSHFIELD FROM THIS HEIGHT by TONY HOAGLAND A DIRGE (1) by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS |
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