Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FADED FLOWERS, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, ye perish'd flowers Last Line: The spirit back to god! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Youth | ||||||||
I. FAREWELL, ye perish'd flowers That on the cold ground lie; How gay ye smiled 'Mid the brown wild, 'Neath summer's painted sky; Pass'd hath your bloom away; Your stalks are sere and bent: On the howling blast The rain sweeps past, From the dim firmament. II. I think me of your pride, When Zephyr came with Spring; Then sigh to know What wreck and woe A few brief months may bring! Emblems of human fate, Ye say"Though bright and fair Life's morning be, Its eve may see The clouds of grief and care!" III. In you I scan the fate Life's sunniest hopes have met, When Youth's bright noon, (Alas! how soon!) In manhood's twilight set Yes! joy by joy decay'd As ye did fade, sweet blooms, Leaving behind, Upon the wind, A while your soft perfumes. IV. As waned each blossom bright, So doom'd were to depart Friend after friend And each to rend A fibre from the heart: Green Spring again shall bid Your boughs with bloom be crown'd; But alas! to Man, In earth's brief span, No second spring comes round! V. Yes! friends who clomb Life's hill Together, long ago, Are parted, and Their fatherland No more their places know! We see them not, nor hear them, Among the garden bowers; They have pass'd away In bright decay, Like you, ye perish'd flowers! VI. Mourn notwe meet again, Although we meet not here; Turn ye above, Where Faith and Love Taste Heaven's eternal year: For though Time's winter bows The grey head to the clod, Dust goes to dust, But (as we trust) The Spirit back to God! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BETWEEN THE WARS by ROBERT HASS THE GOLDEN SHOVEL by TERRANCE HAYES ALONG WITH YOUTH by ERNEST HEMINGWAY THE BLACK RIVIERA by MARK JARMAN THE RUSTIC LAD'S LAMENT IN THE TOWN by DAVID MACBETH MOIR |
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