Song V
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
THE sunshine of your presence lies
On the glad garden of my heart
And bids the leaves of silence part
To show the flowers to your dear eyes,
And flower on flower blooms there and dies
And still new buds awakened spring,
For sunshine makes the garden wise,
To know the time for blossoming.
Night is no time for blossoming,
Your garden then dreams otherwise,
Of vanished Summer, vanished Spring,
And how the dearest flower first dies.
Yet from your ministering eyes
Though night hath drawn me far apart
On the still garden of my heart
The moonlight of your memory lies.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABBAACAC CACAABBA |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 560 |
Words | 104 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
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