Author: Claire Lorrimer
Cites
- W. E. Henley (1)
- IN: Last Year's Nightingale (1984) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: From the brake the Nightingale
Sings exulting to the Rose;
Though he sees her waxing pale
In her passionate repose,
While she triumphs waxing frail,
Fading even while she glows;
Though he knows
How it goes --
Knows of last year's Nightingale
Dead with last year's Rose...
FROM: "From the Brake the Nightingale", (1888), Poem, UK