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A song of Love

Sidney Lanier 1842 (Macon) – 1881 (Lynn)

Hey, rose, just born
Twin to a thorn;
Was't so with you, O Love and Scorn?

Sweet eyes that smiled,
Now wet and wild:
O Eye and Tear- mother and child.

Well: Love and Pain
Be kinfolks twain;
Yet would, Oh would I could Love again.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme AAA BBB CCX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 229
Words 48
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3
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Sidney Lanier

Sidney Lanier was a poet, writer, composer, critic, professor of literature at Johns Hopkins and first flutist with the Peabody Symphony Orchestra in Baltiimore. He wrote the Centennial cantata for the opening ceremony of the 1876 Centennial celebration in Philadelphia. more…

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