Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LINES COMPOSED IN PASSING THROUGH A FOREST IN GERMANY, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, when tomorrow's sun with upward ray Last Line: Would half rejoice, I felt that fate no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Forests; Woods | ||||||||
If, when tomorrow's Sun with upward ray, Gilds the wide spreading oak, and burnish'd pine, Destin'd to mingle here with foreign clay, Pale, cold, and still, should sleep this form of mine; The Day-star, with as lustrous warmth would glow, And thro' the ferny lairs and forest shades, With sweetest woodscents fraught, the air would blow, And timid wild deer, bound along the glades; While in a few short months, to clothe the mould, Would velvet moss and purple melic rise, By Heaven's pure dewdrops water'd, clear and cold, And birds innumerous sing my obsequies; But, in my native land, no faithful maid To mourn for me, would pleasure's orgies shun; No sister's love my long delay upbraid; No mother's anxious love demand her son. Thou, only thou, my friend, would feel regret, My blighted hopes and early fate deplore; And, while my faults thou'dst palliate or forget, Would half rejoice, I felt that fate no more. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE PRINCESS WAKES IN THE WOOD by RANDALL JARRELL CHAMBER MUSIC: 20 by JAMES JOYCE ADVICE TO A FOREST by MAXWELL BODENHEIM A SOUTH CAROLINA FOREST by AMY LOWELL JOY IN THE WOODS by CLAUDE MCKAY IN BLACKWATER WOODS by MARY OLIVER THE PLACE I WANT TO GET BACK TO by MARY OLIVER ELEGIAC SONNET: 2. WRITTEN AT THE CLOSE OF SPRING by CHARLOTTE SMITH ELEGIAC SONNET: 4. TO THE MOON by CHARLOTTE SMITH ELEGIAC SONNET: 44. WRITTEN IN THE CHURCH YARD AT MIDDLETON IN SUSSEX by CHARLOTTE SMITH |
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