Delia by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The speaker compares a loved one's remembrance to fragrance left by dying flowers and a consoling song that will never be sung again. The speaker tenderly bids the beloved sleep now that the hour of rest has come.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Genre: Elegy, Lyric Poetry · 73 words
First lines
Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives, / When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives, / Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain, / But never will be sung to us again, / Is thy remembrance. Now the hour of rest / Hath come to thee. Sleep, darling; it is best.
Genres
- Elegy — The tender farewell joins remembrance, dying flowers, and an irretrievable song with the beloved's final rest.
- Lyric Poetry — Six rhyming lines express the speaker's affection and remembrance through comparisons and direct address.
Tags
remembrance · mourning · consolation · farewell
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Elegy, Lyric Poetry
- Length: 73 words
- Structure: 1 section, 1 paragraphs
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