The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #26829   Message #326556
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
24-Oct-00 - 08:27 PM
Thread Name: NotMusic: I'd pick more daisies....
Subject: RE: NotMusic: I'd pick more daisies....
Margaret is the same name as Daisy, so this counts as a Daisy poem. And this is the season for it:

Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah!  As the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you will weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
S¢rrow's springs  are the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.

Gerard Manley Hopkins