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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A BROKEN MY BRANCH, by WINIFRED LUCAS
First Line: Dead branch, you have chosen a flowery place
Last Line: Is sad with a single martyrdom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Nature; Trees
First Line: Dead branch, you have chosen a flowery place
Last Line: Is sad with a single martyrdom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Nature; Trees
DEAD branch, you have chosen a flowery place
To hang, and dwindle in brown disgrace.
There's life a-drift in the tree to spare,
Whose white breath covers it everywhere.
Did the snows of beauty, that fell to crown
Your limbs, with weariness weigh you down?
Or, on less delicate murder bent,
Did some random shaft of accident
Blast you there in your sweet retreat,
Single sadness within the sweet?
For the tree's sweet life continueth,
Sad, oh branch, with a single death,—
And the month's sweet creed you blossomed from
Is sad with a single martyrdom.
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