Skip to content
Linespedia

Among The Lilies.

Topics: classic

She stood among the lilies     In sunset's brightest ray,     Among the tall June lilies,     As stately fair as they;     And I, a boyish lover then,     Looked once, and, lingering, looked again,     And life began that day.     She sat among the lilies,     My sweet, all lily-pale;     The summer lilies listened,     I whispered low my tale.     O golden anthers, breathing balm,     O hush of peace, O twilight calm,     Did you or I prevail?     She lies among the lily-snows,     Beneath the wintry sky;     All round her and about her     The buried lilies lie.     They will awake at touch of Spring,     And she, my fair and flower-like thing,     In spring-time--by and by.

AI analysis available. Enable JavaScript to interact.

About this line

"She stood among the lilies..."

Exploring the themes of classic, Susan Coolidge (Sarah Chauncey Woolsey) delivers a powerful performance in "Among The Lilies."... ### Why We Love This Line At Linespedia, we believe that poetry is the ultimate sanctuary for the soul...

Classified Tags

Related lines

"We started in the morning, a morning full of glee,     All in the early morning, a goodly company;     And some were full of merriment, and all"

""Do their errands; enter into the sacrifice with them; be a link yourself in the divine chain, and feel the joy and life of it." - ADELINE D. T. WHIT"

"I.     I sit at evening's scented close,     In fulness of the summer-tide;     All dewy fair the lily glows,     No single petal of the row;"

"What is a home? A guarded space,     Wherein a few, unfairly blest,     Shall sit together, face to face,     And bask and purr and be at rest?"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

Continue Reading

"We started in the morning, a morning full of glee,..."

Weekly Poetic Insight

Join our literary Sanctuary

Get the most inspiring lines, poetic analysis, and secret shayaris delivered to your inbox every Sunday.