I love poems with this theme. This by William Ernest Henley.

[raccoon]

O Gather Me the Rose


O gather me the rose, the rose,
While yet in flower we find it,
For summer smiles, but summer goes,
And winter waits behind it.

For with the dream foregone, foregone,
The deed foreborn forever,
The worm Regret will canker on,
And time will turn him never.

So were it well to love, my love,
And cheat of any laughter
The fate beneath us, and above,
The dark before and after.

The myrtle and the rose, the rose,
The sunshine and the swallow,
The dream that comes, the wish that goes
The memories that follow!

William Ernest Henley

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. That is really nice, my dear raccoon...

A romantic, old-fashioned work.

Not the way I write, but one I admire nonetheless...

Thanks for sharing it today!

:hi:

[raccoon]

2. Glad you liked it, CA Peggy! nt

[Lyric]

3. Here's an interesting poetic contrast:

A Daughter of Eve - Christina Rossetti

A fool I was to sleep at noon,
And wake when night is chilly
Beneath the comfortless cold moon;
A fool to pluck my rose too soon,
A fool to snap my lily.

My garden-plot I have not kept;
Faded and all-forsaken,
I weep as I have never wept:
Oh it was summer when I slept,
It's winter now I waken.

Talk what you please of future spring
And sun-warm'd sweet to-morrow:
Stripp'd bare of hope and everything,
No more to laugh, no more to sing,
I sit alone with sorrow.

[nolabear]

4. Forgive me for asking a pop question about a classic poem,

but does anyone remember a very old song called "Their Hearts were Full of Spring"? It also has that classic theme of love and mortality and flowers entwined from lovers' graves. I distinctly remember crying like a baby when I was little more THAN a baby, very early 60's.

Ah! I found it on the Youtubes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjMXNupevug

Wow. Suddenly I'm five again.

[raccoon]

5. Yes, I know that song! My VERY FAVORITE rock group sang it (Beach Boys).

So did the Four Freshmen,who were a big influence on Brian Wilson.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ojc5wq-GAQ&feature=related