Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, I MET THEE, by GEORGE LUNT


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First Line: I met thee when thy youthful charms
Last Line: Like hope the future, while I wept.
Subject(s): Past; Youth


I MET thee when thy youthful charms
Were like the floweret's sweetest bell,
That secret hangs, remote from harms,
In nature's most secluded dell;
Unconscious of life's noon-day glare,
Thine early hours had glided on,
In sweetness with its gentler air,
In brightness with its morning sun.

Scarce like a thing of mortal mould
I saw the lovely image rise,
So clear the spirit through its fold,
So kindred to its native skies.
Its graceful stem, earth's ruder blast
Might seem to break, that o'er it swept,—
Yet anguish could not paint the past
Like hope the future, while I wept.





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