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STREET-CRIES: 7. A SONG OF LOVE by SIDNEY LANIER

Poet Analysis

First Line: HEY, ROSE, JUST BORN
Last Line: "YET WOULD, OH WOULD I COULD LOVE AGAIN."
Subject(s): LOVE;
"HEY, rose, just born
Twin to a thorn;
Was't so with you, O Love and Scorn?
"Sweet eyes that smiled,
Now wet and wild;
O Eye and Tear -- mother and child.
"Well: Love and Pain
Be kinsfolk twain:
Yet would, Oh would I could love again."



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