Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FANNY BRAWNE, by MARY SINTON LEITCH


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FANNY BRAWNE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A star leaned down from heaven to touch a rose
Last Line: That was too starry for a rose to bear!
Subject(s): Brawne, Fanny


A star leaned down from heaven to touch a rose
With bright, ethereal longing and desire,
Wooing her trembling petals to unclose
And yield her earthly heart to heavenly fire.

The rose that might have mated with a star
And shared a radiant immortality
Is now but dust as other roses are
That blossomed for a crimson hour -- to die; --

Grey dust upon indifferent breezes sifting
Over old graves or through dim gardens drifting.

Poor fragile flower! You withered in an air
That was too starry for a rose to bear!





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