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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SHE BLOOMS NO MORE, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dread to see the summer sun Last Line: Is still a waste to me. Subject(s): Despair | |||
I DREAD to see the Summer sun Come glowing up the sky, And modest flow'rets, one by one, Opening the violet eye; The choral melody of June -- The perfumed breath of heaven -- The dewy morn -- the radiant noon -- The lingering light of even; These, which so charm'd my careless heart In happy days gone by, A deeper sadness now impart To memory's thoughtful eye. They speak of one who sleeps in death, Her race untimely o'er, Who ne'er shall taste Spring's honied breath, Nor see her glories more. Of one who shared with me, in youth Life's sunshine and its flowers, And kept unchanged her bosom's truth Through all its darkest hours. She faded when the leaves were sere, And wailed the Autumn blast; With all the glories of the year From earth her spirit pass'd. Again the nodding lilac bows Beneath its plumy crest; In yonder hedge the hawthorn blows, The robin builds his nest. The floating vines she loved to train Around her lattice, rear Their snowy coronals again, And hang their garlands there. But she can bloom on earth no more Whose early doom I mourn, Nor Spring, nor Summer, can restore Our flower untimely shorn; Her smile is gone, which beamed on me With mild and steadfast light; Her rosy lips have mournfully Breathed out their last good night. She ne'er will hear again the song Of merry birds in spring, Nor roam the flowery braes among In the year's young blossoming; Nor longer in the lingering light Of Summer's eve shall we, Lock'd hand in hand, together sit Beneath the green-wood tree. 'T is therefore that I dread to see The glowing Summer's sun, And balmy blossoms on the tree, Unfolding one by one. They speak of things which once have been, But never more can be; And earth, all deck'd in smiles again, Is still a waste to me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DAY THAT WAS THAT DAY by AMY LOWELL MAN IN THE STREET OR HAND OVER MOUTH by HEATHER MCHUGH BURIAL RITES by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE CAMPS; FOR MARILYN HACKER by HAYDEN CARRUTH SONNETS FROM SERIES RELATING TO EDGAR ALLEN POE: 1 by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN A NOVEMBER LANDSACPE by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN A SEPTEMBER EVENING ON THE BANKS OF THE MOSHASSUCK by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN |
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