Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A ROOM ON A GARDEN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O stagnant east-wind, palsied mare Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening | ||||||||
O stagnant east-wind, palsied mare Giddap! The ruby roses' hair Must blow Behold how order is the end Of everything. The roses bend As one Order, the law of hoes and rakes May be perceived in windy quakes And squalls The gardener searches earth and sky The truth in nature to espy In vain He well might find that eager balm In lilies' stately-statued calm; But then He well might find it in this fret Of lilies rusted, rotting, wet With Rain | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NOVEMBER GARDEN: AN ELEGY by ANDREW HUDGINS AN ENGLISH GARDEN IN AUSTRIA (SEEN AFTER DER ROSENKAVALIER) by RANDALL JARRELL ACROSS THE BROWN RIVER by GALWAY KINNELL A DESERTED GARDEN by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS NOT THE SWEET CICELY OF GERARDES HERBALL by MARGARET AVISON AN OLD GARDEN by HERBERT BASHFORD |
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