Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MOON-FLOWERS, by JOHN FREEMAN


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First Line: These white moon-flowers lift to the moon
Last Line: The canker of cureless time?
Subject(s): Flowers; Moon


THESE white moon-flowers lift to the moon their faces,
Pale, insignificant, serene,
All night shining into deepening spaces
Of airy seas, firths of infinity
Sown with unvisited stars.

And the great moon-flower of the sky shines, turning
White petals towards the garden petals.
—Moon-flowers or garden-flowers—which are burning
More brightly, and more precariously,
In their unequal fields?

These garden-flowers that in their season perish,
So brief and certain; and that dishevelled moon
Already faded in the field of garish
Suns and fierce stars:—O which more surely shows
The canker of cureless Time?





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