Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WITH DAFFODILS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I send you daffodils, my dear Last Line: Are you the only firmament. Subject(s): Daffodils; Eden; God; Heaven; Paradise | ||||||||
I SEND you daffodils, my dear, For these are emperors of spring, And in my heart you keep so clear So delicate an empery, That none but emperors could be Ambassadors endowed to bring My messages of honesty. My mind makes faring to and fro, Deft or bewildered, dark or kind, That not the eye of God may know Which motion is of true estate And which a twisted runagate Of all the farings of my mind, And which has honesty for mate. Only my love for you is clean Of scandal's use, and though, may be, Far rangers have my passions been, -- Since thus the word of Eden went, -- Yet of the springs of my content, My very wells of honesty Are you the only firmament. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE END OF LIFE by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 6 by CONRAD AIKEN THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#19): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND WINTER by MARVIN BELL THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR A SKELETON FOR MR. PAUL IN PARADISE; AFTER ALLAN GUISINGER by NORMAN DUBIE BEAUTY & RESTRAINT by DANIEL HALPERN HOW IT WILL HAPPEN, WHEN by DORIANNE LAUX IF THIS IS PARADISE by DORIANNE LAUX |
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