Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN OLD SONG OF A YOUTHFUL TIME, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poet's Biography First Line: I went for a woodland walk Last Line: I have thought of it oft since then! Subject(s): Charm; Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Male-female Relations | ||||||||
I went for a woodland walk With Rose, whom I heeded not; 'Twas in old, old timesour talk Was of trifles long forgot. I was marble-cold, and shy, As I roamed with listless strides: We babbled of flowersher eye Seemed to ask, "Is there nought besides?" The dewdrops hung, like pearls, On the copse of shady dales; I listened aye to the merles, And Rose to the nightingales. I was sixteensans coeur She twentyblithe and free The nightingale sang to her, And the blackbirds whistled at me. With white arms raised, she stood Stretched to her utmost height, To pluck some fruit in the wood I saw not her arms so white. A streamlet, fresh and deep, Over velvet mosses strayed, And Nature seemed to sleep In the grand wood's solemn shade; Rose lifted her robe of white, And dipped, with an innocent air, Her naked foot in the wavelet bright I saw not her foot so fair. We roamed in the woods longwhile, But never a word spake I, Though I saw her sometimes smile, And heard her sometimes sigh; I felt not how fair that maid, Till we left the deep woodland glen; "Amen! we won't think of it more," she said I have thought of it oft since then! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MISERY AND SPLENDOR by ROBERT HASS THE APPLE TREES AT OLEMA by ROBERT HASS DOUBLE SONNET by ANTHONY HECHT CONDITIONS XXI by ESSEX HEMPHILL CALIFORNIA SORROW: MOUNTAIN VIEW by MARY KINZIE SUPERBIA: A TRIUMPH WITH NO TRAIN by MARY KINZIE COUNSEL TO UNREASON by LEONIE ADAMS TWENTY QUESTIONS by DAVID LEHMAN A COUP D'ETAT; AN INCIDENT IN THE NIGHT OF DECEMBER 4, 1851 by VICTOR MARIE HUGO |
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