Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FORGOTTEN FLOWERS TO A BRIDE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY


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First Line: We were left behind, but we would not stay
Last Line: For an eden-wreath to thy love and thee.
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


WE were left behind, but we would not stay,
We found your clue, and have kept the way,
For, sooth to tell, the track was plain
Of a bliss like yours, in a world of pain.
-- How little we thought, when so richly we drest,
To go to your wedding, and vie with the best,
When we made our toilette, with such elegant care,
That we might not disgrace an occasion so rare,
To be whirl'd in a coach, at this violent rate,
From county to county, and State to State!
-- Though we travell'd incog, yet we trembled with fear,
For the accents of strangers fell hoarse on our ear;
We could hear every word, as we quietly lay
In the snug box of tin, where they stow'd us away:
But how would our friends at a distance have known
If, charm'd by our beauty, they'd made us their own?
-- All unus'd to the taverns and roads, as we were,
Our baggage and bones were a terrible care:
Yet we've 'scaped every peril, the journey is o'er,
And hooded and cloak'd, we are safe at your door.
-- We bring you a gift from your native skies,
The crystal gem from affection's eyes,
Which tenderly trickles, when dear ones part,
We have wrapp'd it close in the rose's heart:
We are charg'd with a mother's benison kiss,
Will you welcome us in, to your halls, for this?
-- We are chill'd with the cold of our wintry way,
Our message is done, we must fade away:
Let us die on your breast, and our prayer shall be
For an Eden-wreath to thy love and thee.





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