Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A WINDFLOWER, by BLISS CARMAN



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First Line: Between the roadside and the wood
Last Line: Between the woodside and the road!
Subject(s): Anemone; Plants; Planting; Planters


BETWEEN the roadside and the wood,
Between the dawning and the dew,
A tiny flower before the wind,
Ephemeral in time, I grew.

The chance of straying feet came by, --
Nor death nor love nor any name
Known among men in all their lands, --
Yet failure put desire to shame.

To-night can bring no healing now,
The calm of yesternight is gone;
Surely the wind is but the wind,
And I a broken waif thereon.

How fair my thousand brothers wave
Upon the floor of God's abode:
Whence came that careless wanderer
Between the woodside and the road!





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