Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HIDDEN BEAUTY, by GLADYS BROWN DENISON


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HIDDEN BEAUTY, by                    
First Line: Here in the forest in the early spring
Last Line: For beauty hidden in an ugly place.
Subject(s): Beauty


Here in the forest in the early spring
Beauty comes all too easily for me
To love with that same ecstasy I found
When she lay hidden in a city street.
Beauty of tree and lake, of towering skies
Is loved by every man and me no less
Than others. But the one small crocus bud
Growing forlornly in a dirty plot
Before a small, unpainted, wooden shack --
A cart piled high with oranges and plums
Pushed by a big black man with glistening arms --
A child with dirty face and broken shoes
Turning Italian eyes of that rare blue
Up to a stranger's face . . . A sunset seen
Between a row of ugly, blackened, houses --
These things became a part of me for they
Were only found by seeking patiently
For beauty hidden in an ugly place.





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