It's good to have the trees again, the singing of the breeze again,
It's good to see the lilacs bloom as lovely as of old.
It's good that we can feel again the touch of beauties real again,
For hearts and minds, of sorrow now, have all that they can hold.
The roses haven't changed a bit, nor have the lilacs stranged a bit,
They bud and bloom the way they did before the war began.
The world is upside down to-day, there's much to make us frown to-day,
And gloom and sadness everywhere beset the path of man.
But now the lilacs bloom again and give us their perfume again,
And now the roses smile at us and nod along the way;
And it is good to see again the blossoms on each tree again,
And feel that nature hasn't changed the way we have to-day.
Oh, we have changed from what we were; we're not the carefree lot we were;
Our hearts are filled with sorrow now and grave concern and pain,
But it is good to see once more, the blooming lilac tree once more,
And find the constant roses here to comfort us again.
In a published book
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I have a
lilac
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Absolutely Lovely
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This is an old poem, isn't it - the style, the pedestrian rhyme and meter - yet he's talking about the period of the most amazing flowering of arts, between the first world war and the depression. The images, of roses and lilacs, are European, and the understated emotion is very British - grave concern, indeed. I'll have to check him out, but I think he's not American.
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As it says in the biography on this site. Edgar Guest was actually British born. However he moved to America early in life and virtually all his writing was done for an American audience that even a Brit like me acknowledges him as "belonging" to the Americas.
I believe that his writing does have rhyme and meter (why not
) but it is hardly pedestrian and it does have a fine style.
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I love reading the Oldpoetry! This one I thoroughly enjoyed!!!
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The world goes on without us and some how that makes me feel calm.
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