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Poem
February 11, 1811
Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
What is this article about?
A poem titled 'BEAUTY' reflects on the transience of physical beauty through metaphors of a dew-drop evaporated by the sun and a lily broken by winter's blast, emphasizing mortality's sudden arrival with a moral on impermanence.
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Poetry.
MR. Shirley—The following contains a most beautiful and impressive moral—besides much poetic grace and spirit:—You will please to insert it in your Gazette.
BEAUTY,
The wind passeth over it, and it is gone.
"I saw a dew-drop cool and clear,
Dance on a myrtle spray:
Fair colours deck'd the lucid tear.
Like those which gleam and disappear.
When showers and sunbeams play:——
Sol cast athwart a glance severe
And scorch'd the pearl away.
High on a slender polish'd stem,
A fragrant lilly grew;
On the pure petals many a gem
Glittered, a native diadem
Of healthy morning dew:
A blast of lingering winter came,
And snapp'd the stem in two.
Fairer than Morning's early tear.
Or lilly's snowy bloom,
Shines Beauty in its vernal year;
Bright, sparkling, fascinating, clear
Gay, thoughtless of its doom!
Death breathes a sudden poison near,
And sweeps it to the tomb!"
MR. Shirley—The following contains a most beautiful and impressive moral—besides much poetic grace and spirit:—You will please to insert it in your Gazette.
BEAUTY,
The wind passeth over it, and it is gone.
"I saw a dew-drop cool and clear,
Dance on a myrtle spray:
Fair colours deck'd the lucid tear.
Like those which gleam and disappear.
When showers and sunbeams play:——
Sol cast athwart a glance severe
And scorch'd the pearl away.
High on a slender polish'd stem,
A fragrant lilly grew;
On the pure petals many a gem
Glittered, a native diadem
Of healthy morning dew:
A blast of lingering winter came,
And snapp'd the stem in two.
Fairer than Morning's early tear.
Or lilly's snowy bloom,
Shines Beauty in its vernal year;
Bright, sparkling, fascinating, clear
Gay, thoughtless of its doom!
Death breathes a sudden poison near,
And sweeps it to the tomb!"
What sub-type of article is it?
Ode
What themes does it cover?
Death Mourning
Moral Virtue
Nature Seasons
What keywords are associated?
Beauty
Transience
Dew Drop
Lily
Death
Moral
Nature
Mortality
Poem Details
Title
Beauty
Subject
On The Transience Of Beauty
Form / Style
Rhymed Stanzas
Key Lines
The Wind Passeth Over It, And It Is Gone.
I Saw A Dew Drop Cool And Clear, / Dance On A Myrtle Spray: / Fair Colours Deck'd The Lucid Tear. / Like Those Which Gleam And Disappear. / When Showers And Sunbeams Play:——
Sol Cast Athwart A Glance Severe / And Scorch'd The Pearl Away.
Death Breathes A Sudden Poison Near, / And Sweeps It To The Tomb!