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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A YOUNG GIRL, by LUCIA CLARK MARKHAM First Line: What will be left for you when romance goes Last Line: When youth and laughter vanish in the night? Subject(s): Girls | |||
What will be left for you when romance goes To tread its swift, inevitable way, You who are like a minstrel's tender lay Warbled across a land of dazzling snows? You who are vivid as a Christmas rose That blooms unwitting of the waiting dust, What will uphold the tendrils of your trust Where the harsh wind of disillusion blows? What angel will assume the empty place, Haunted and lonely, that the young god left? What compensation will you find? What grace To mend the shattered strings by sorrow cleft? What alien drums will time your laggard flight When youth and laughter vanish in the night? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO THE RETURNED GIRLS by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS A GIRL by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY SONG OF THE LITTLE WHITE GIRL by KATHERINE MANSFIELD SEASHORE by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS GIRLS ON THE RUN: 1 by JOHN ASHBERY GIRLS ON THE RUN: 10 by JOHN ASHBERY GIRLS ON THE RUN: 14 by JOHN ASHBERY GIRLS ON THE RUN: 2 by JOHN ASHBERY INTIMATIONS by LUCIA CLARK MARKHAM |
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