Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WALL-FLOWER, by EDNA GILLESPIE


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WALL-FLOWER, by                    
First Line: To you who like slender lances
Last Line: That we may sparkle among the dead.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers


To you who like slender lances,
Sway your way through the dances.
We who sit along the wall,
Dull and quiet as an old gray shawl,
Seem but futile and absurd,
As you flash by with careless word;
We turn and nod with frozen grin
And a bitter prayer deep within
That the gods may smite and grind
All that beauty to powder, and bind
A starry atom to our head
That we may sparkle among the dead.





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