Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PASQUE FLOWERS, by WILLIAM LYLE FLANAGAN First Line: Lilac twilight blown Last Line: Are not more beautiful! Subject(s): Flowers | ||||||||
Lilac twilight blown Across a frost-numbed waking slope . . . Ethereal burning stars clear as morning air . . . Tears of Mary sprung to bloom Beneath a blood-stained cross . . . Iris mist, brushed low upon earth . . . Pale buds have loosed faint dreams, Floating, floating dreams that sift Through lazy sunlight languidly As ropes of smoke From smouldering wood-fires, Silver . . . thin . . . faint, tenuous dreams Wrapped in fantastic arabesques So spun that cobwebs Inlaid with turquoise dew at morn Are not more beautiful! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THEY SAW THE PROBLEM by MARK JARMAN SHAKE THE SUPERFLUX! by DAVID LEHMAN THE M??TIER OF BLOSSOMING by DENISE LEVERTOV TANKA DIARY (6) by HARRYETTE MULLEN VARIATIONS: 17 by CONRAD AIKEN FORCED BLOOM by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN TOWARD THE GULF; DEDICATED TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |
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