A Flower Given To My Daughter Poem by James Joyce

A Flower Given To My Daughter

Rating: 3.5


Frail the white rose and frail are
Her hands that gave
Whose soul is sere and paler
Than time's wan wave.

Rosefrail and fair -- yet frailest
A wonder wild
In gentle eyes thou veilest,
My blueveined child.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Hector Manuel Caffarena. 07 October 2018

Beautiful. So strange.I love it

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Leslie Sharp 28 August 2014

A father love for his daughter knowing she gave to this world which is frail, trying to heal the wrongs a fragile child against the worlds way, became obsessed and veiled to the world somewhat like the Amish believe * The Devil's Play ground*

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