Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONGS: 1. LEND ME THE LYRE AGAIN, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS


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SONGS: 1. LEND ME THE LYRE AGAIN, by                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: That once she lent it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Paradise


LEND me the lyre again,
The long forsaken!
One tone it must retain,
One song of all the store
I gave to it of yore
Sleeps there to waken.

Wreathe me the lyre again!
Moonflowers and sorrel
Gather by stream and plain,
Weaving a thousand flowers
Under the wild-rose bowers,
But not the laurel.

Give me the lyre again!
As Heaven that sent it
Sucks from the earth her rain,
So from the trembling lyre
My soul shall drink the fire
That once she lent it.





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