Poem: “The Wild Honeysuckle” by Philip Freneau

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American Literature – American Poetry – Philip Freneau – Poems by Philip Freneau
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The Wild Honeysuckle

“Fair flower that does so comely grow,
Hid in this silent, dull retreat,
Untouched thy honeyed blossoms blow,
Unseen thy little branches greet:
No roving foot shall crush thee here,
No busy hand provoke a tear.

“By Nature’s self in white arrayed,
She bade thee shun the vulgar eye,
She planted here the guardian shade,
And sent soft waters murmuring by;
Thus quietly the summer goes,
Thy days declining to repose.

“Smit with those charms that must decay
I grieve to see thy future doom;
They died—nor were those flowers more gay,
The flowers that did in Eden bloom;
Unpitying frosts and Autumn’s power
Shall leave no vestige of this flower.

“From morning suns and evening dews
At first thy little blossom came:
If nothing once, you nothing lose,
For when you die you are the same:
The space between is but an hour,
The frail duration of a flower.”

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American Literature – American Poetry – Philip Freneau – Poems by Philip Freneau

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