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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE'S ROSARY, by ALFRED NOYES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day I tell my rosary Last Line: About the break of day. Subject(s): Rosary | |||
ALL day I tell my rosary For now my love's away: To-morrow he shall come to me About the break of day; A rosary of twenty hours, And then a rose of May; A rosary of fettered flowers, And then a holy-day. All day I tell my rosary, My rosary of hours: And here's a flower of memory, And here's a hope of flowers, And here's an hour that yearns with pain For old forgotten years, An hour of loss, an hour of gain, And then a shower of tears. All day I tell my rosary, Because my love's away; And never a whisper comes to me, And never a word to say; But, if it's parting more endears, God bring him back, I pray; Or my heart will break in the darkness Before the break of day. All day I tell my rosary, My rosary of hours, Until an hour shall bring to me The hope of all the flowers.... I tell my rosary of hours, For O, my love's away; And -- a dream may bring him back to me About the break of day. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ROSARY by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS THE ROSARY by CHARLOTTE A. BRADSHAW THE LAY OF THE BROWN ROSARY by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING A PARAPHRASE ON THE LORD'S PRAYER by JOHN BYROM THE TROUBLE WITH THE TIMES by THOMAS MCGRATH ROSARY BEADS by HERMAN MELVILLE THE CHILD'S PRAYER by ROBERT DE MONTESQUIOU THE FIRST ROSARY by NAOMI REYNOLDS MOUNTAIN LAUREL by ALFRED NOYES |
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