Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ARCADY LOST, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poet's Biography First Line: The cherry bloom and robin time of year Last Line: Where once, o comrade mine, we heard them sing. Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Singing & Singers; Spring; Suffering; Misery | ||||||||
The cherry bloom and robin time of year Again is come; and we that shepherd still Among less heavenly pastures feel the fear Of spring again, and all the tears that thrill But never fall. Last night, across the shine Of iris-tinted skies, I heard the dim Enraptured song we knew, the dire divine Music, that once, beyond the violet rim Of pain, could waft us clear to where, our own, Th' unstable faery shores of ecstasy Burn in the twilight of an April sea. Our music came last night to me alone. No more may song nor petalled fluttering Upbreathe frail, frail delight as in the days We clung together here. Instead, they bring The pain of hearts that, glamourous still with spring, Break, and the dread of star-lit, lonely ways Where once, O comrade mine, we heard them sing. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PARTHENOPHIL AND PARTHENOPHE: MADRIGAL 14 by BARNABE BARNES SONNETS IN SHADOWS: 1 by ARLO BATES IN PRAISE OF PAIN by HEATHER MCHUGH THE SYMPATIZERS by JOSEPHINE MILES LEEK STREET by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR OVERTONES by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY |
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