Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A MADRIGAL, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is a day, sweetheart, shining and bright Last Line: Love is a life, sweetheart, ending in death. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Love - Nature Of | ||||||||
LOVE is a day, Sweetheart, shining and bright: It hath its rose-dawn ere the morning light; Its glow and glory of the sudden sun; Its noon-tide heat as the swift hours wear on; Its fall of dew, and silver-lighted night, -- Love is a day. Sweetheart, shining and bright. Love is a year, Beloved, bitter and brief: It hath its spring of bud, and bloom and leaf; Its summer burning from the fervid South Till all the fields lie parched and faint with drouth; Its autumn, when the leaves sweep down the gale, When skies are grey, and heart and spirit fail; Its winter white with snow, more white with grief, -- Love is a year, Beloved, bitter and brief. Love is a life, Sweetheart, ending in death: Is it worth while to mourn its fleeting breath, Light-fooled youth, or sad, fore-casting prime, Joy of young hope, or grief of later time? What pain or pleasure stays its parting breath? Love is a life, Sweetheart, ending in death. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RESCUE THE DEAD by DAVID IGNATOW BUTTERFLIES UNDER PERSIMMON by MARK JARMAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 27 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 28 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 30 by JAMES JOYCE HE WHO KNOWS LOVE by ELSA BARKER LOVE'S HUMBLENESS by ELSA BARKER SONG (IN THE LUCKY CHANCE) by APHRA BEHN A PAINTED FAN by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON |
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