Verses On Receiving A Flower From His Mistress

James Thomson 1700 (Port Glasgow) – 1748 (London)



Madam, the flower that I received from you,
Ere I came home, had lost its lovely hue:
As flowers deprived of the genial day,
Its sprightly bloom did wither and decay;
Dear, fading flower, I know full well, said I,
The reason why you shed your sweets and die;
You want the influence of her enlivening eye.
Your case is mine -- Absence, that plague of love!
With heavy pace makes every minute move:
It of my being is an empty blank,
And hinders me myself with men to rank;
Your cheering presence quickeneth me again,
And new-sprung life exults in every vein.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AABBCCCDEFFGH
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 564
Words 105
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13

James Thomson

James Thomson, who wrote under the pseudonym Bysshe Vanolis, was a Scottish Victorian-era poet famous primarily for the long poem The City of Dreadful Night, an expression of bleak pessimism in a dehumanized, uncaring urban environment. more…

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