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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
QUATRAINS, by ESTHER RUSSELL
First Line: Sad that I should lose my crown
Last Line: —quests into the blue
Subject(s): Change; Longing; Love - Loss Of
First Line: Sad that I should lose my crown
Last Line: —quests into the blue
Subject(s): Change; Longing; Love - Loss Of
Sad that I should lose my crown
When I have scarce been queen;
Sad that leaves should turn to brown
When they have scarce been green.
I cannot find a new love
For thinking of an olden one;
I cannot live a silver hour
For having known a golden one.
You are the stars I dimly see at night,
You are the breeze that softly stirs in flight;
You are the essence of a paling dawn at sea,
You are the little breath of that diviner me.
—QUESTS INTO THE BLUE
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