Flower+of+Love+vs.+Young+and+Beautiful

Sweet, I blame you not, for mine the fault was, had I not been made of common clay I had climbed the higher heights unclimbed yet, seen the fuller air, the larger day.
 * Poem || Literary Terms || Song ||
 * **__Flower of Love __**

From the wildness of my wasted passion I had struck a better, clearer song, Lit some lighter light of freer freedom, battled with some Hydra -headed wrong.

Had my lips been smitten into music by the kisses that but made them bleed, You had walked with Bice  and the angels <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> on that verdant and enamelled meed.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I had trod the road which <span style="background-color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dante <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> treading saw the suns of seven circles shine, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ay! perchance had seen the heavens opening, as they opened to the Florence.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And the mighty nations would have crowned me, who am crownless now and without name, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And some orient dawn had found me kneeling on the threshold of the House of Fame.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I had sat within that marble circle where the oldest bard is as the young, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And the pipe is ever dropping honey, and the lyre's strings are ever strung.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Keats had lifted up his hymeneal curls from out the poppy-seeded wine, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">With ambrosial mouth had kissed my forehead, clasped the hand of noble love in mine.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And at springtide, when the apple-blossoms brush the burnished bosom of the dove, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Two young lovers lying in an orchard would have read the story of our love;

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Would have read the legend of my passion, known the bitter secret of my heart, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Kissed as we have kissed, but never parted as we two are fated now to part.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">For the crimson flower of our life is eaten by the cankerworm of truth, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And no hand can gather up the fallen withered petals of the rose of youth.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Yet I am not sorry that I loved you -ah! what else had I a boy to do? - <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">For the hungry teeth of time devour, and the silent-footed years pursue.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Rudderless, we drift athwart a tempest, and when once <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the storm of youth is past <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Without lyre, without lute or chorus, Death the silent pilot comes at last.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And within the grave there is no pleasure, for the blindworm battens on the root, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And Desire shudders into ashes, and the tree of Passion bears no fruit.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ah! what else had I to do but love you? <span style="background-color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">God's own mother <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> was less dear to me, <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And less dear the Cytheraean rising like an argent lily from the sea. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I have made my choice, have lived my poems, and, though youth is gone in wasted days, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I have found the lover's crown of myrtle better than the poet's crown of bays. || <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Metaphor

<span style="background-color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Allusion

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Simile || **__<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Rey __** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I've seen the world <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Done it all, had my cake now <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Diamonds, brilliant, and Bel-Air now <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hot summer nights mid July <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">When you and I were forever wild <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The crazy days, the city lights <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The way you'd play with me like a child

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Will you still love me when I got nothing but my aching soulI know you will, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I know you willI know that you will <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I've seen the world, lit it up as my stage now <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Channeling angels in, the new age now <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hot summer days, rock and roll <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The way you'd play for me at your show <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And all the ways I got to know <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Your pretty face and electric soul

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Will you still love me when I got nothing but my aching soul <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I know you will, I know you willI know that you will <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful

<span style="background-color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dear Lord <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">, when I get to heaven <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Please let me bring my man <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">When he comes tell me that you'll let him in <span style="background-color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Father tell me if you can

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Oh that grace, oh that body <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Oh that face makes me wanna party <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">He's my sun, <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">he makes me shine like diamonds

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Will you still love me when I got nothing but my aching soul <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I know you will, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I know you will <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I know that you will <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Will you still love me when I'm not young and beautiful ||