Spring's sweet attendant! modest simple flower, Whose soft retiring charms the woods adorn, How often have I wandered at that hour, When first appear the rosy tints of morn, To the wild brook -- there, upon mossy ground, Thy velvet form all beautiful to view; To catch thy breath that steals delicious round, And mark thy pensive smile through tears of dew: But then I sigh that other violets bloom, Unseen, in wilds where footstep never trod, Find unadmired, unnoticed, there a tomb, And mingle silent with the grassy sod; Ah, so the scattered flowers of genius rise; These bloom to charm -- that, hid -- neglected dies. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE VOYAGE by CAROLINE ATHERTON BRIGGS MASON RIFLEMAN FORM! by ALFRED TENNYSON THE SISTERS by MARY REYNOLDS ALDIS THREE THINGS by JOSEPH AUSLANDER AFTER THE SOIREE by F. R. D. B. A STREET MOTHER by WILLIAM ROSE BENET AN OLD SAW NEWLY RENDERED by LEVI BISHOP |