<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=571419" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Season's Cornation Day (Italian Sonnet)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beneath the pale sun's melancholy ray<br>a tearful empress lays her garland down, <br>relinquishing her fragrance of renown, <br>where blossoms left on each abandoned spray<br>are strewn like flags o'er Coronation Day.<br>An auburn rival will usurp her crown, <br>assume her royal throne and queenly gown, <br>then lead her where awakened vultures play.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The grand procession winds along the square<br>where nimbly darts a joyous cymbal's flame.<br>'Yet, Autumn, what is in the urn you bear? <br>Perchance the ashes of a maid's last prayer<br>whose grief is now your ornament of shame? <br>... Such hell you pay for slaying Summer's heir! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>[An Italian sonnet is composed of an octave, rhyming abbaabba, and a sestet, rhyming cdecde or cdcdcd, or in some variant pattern such as cdccdc, but with no closing couplet. A sonnet's meter is iambic pentameter.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Susan+Crowe">Susan Crowe</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=571419" data-title="Season's Cornation Day (Italian Sonnet) de Susan Crowe" data-description="Beneath the pale sun's melancholy ray a tearful empress lays her garland down, relinquishing her fragrance of renown, where blossoms left on each abandoned spray are strewn like flags o'er Coronation Day. An auburn rival will usurp her crown, a..."></div> </div> </div>

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