In this poem, a "white arrayed" nature "bade thee  shun the vulgar eye" by providing the title object with "guardian shade" and "soft waters murmuring by."
In the original version of this poem published in the Charleston Columbian Herald, the second line referenced a "dreary dark" place and the most celebrated line concerned an "empty image." In this poem, a "white arrayed" nature "bade thee  shun the vulgar eye" by providing the title object with "guardian shade" and "soft waters murmuring by." This poem  dictates "If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same" and decrees that "No roving foot shall  crush thee here, No busy hand provoke a tear." Later, as "summer goes," the "Unpitying (*) frosts and Autumn's power"  leave "no vestige" of this poem's title object that was "Hid in this silent, dull retreat." The final couplet in this poem reads "The space between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower." For 10 points, name this poem that illustrates the transience of life with a "fair flower, that dost so comely grow," a work by the "Poet of the American Revolution," Philip Freneau.
In the original version of this poem published in the Charleston Columbian Herald, the second line referenced a "dreary dark" place and the most celebrated line concerned an "empty image."
“The Wild Honeysuckle”