Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SPROUTING BOARD, by AL-ISRA'ILI First Line: Your cheeks were oh how fair Last Line: Reveals its wick is black. | ||||||||
Your cheeks were oh how fair, How full of glowing grace Until that sprouted there, Your beauty to deface. And then your cheeks became A candle that, alack Extinguishing its flame, Reveals its wick is black. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MUJER by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS THE SPRING OF THE YEAR by ALLAN CUNNINGHAM THE DARK HILLS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON DIRGE FOR THE LATE JAMES CURRIE, M.D., OF LIVERPOOL by LUCY AIKEN RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 4 by ROBERT BROWNING WHITE SWORD by WINIFRED ADAMS BURR |
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