Time & Brevity
Sweets That Die
From An American Anthology (1900)
Time & Brevity
How fades that native breath
The rose exhales,
Whenas her bloom is o'er!
Altho' her petals on the evening gales
Are wafted by, a fleet of fairy sails,
She is, alas! no more.
And love dies like the rose,
And fills the air
With many a deep drawn sigh:
Shall I not both embalm with sacred care,
That they may have, in sweetly-breathed air,
Their immortality!
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MLA
Mitchell, Langdon Elwyn. “Sweets That Die.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/mitchell_le/2/.
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Mitchell, Langdon Elwyn. “Sweets That Die.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/mitchell_le/2/.
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