Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NIGHT-BLOWING FLOWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children of night! Unfolding meekly, slowly Last Line: In silent hours to fill. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers | ||||||||
CHILDREN of night! unfolding meekly, slowly, To the sweet breathings of the shadowy hours, When dark-blue heavens look softest and most holy, And glow-worm light is in the forest bowers; To solemn things and deep, To spirit-haunted sleep, To thoughts, all purified From earth, ye seem allied; O dedicated flowers! Ye, from the gaze of crowds your beauty veiling, Keep in dim vestal urns the sweetness shrined; Till the mild moon, on high serenely sailing, Looks on you tenderly and sadly kind. -- So doth love's dreaming heart Dwell from the throng apart, And but to shades disclose The inmost thought, which glows With its pure life entwined. Shut from the sounds wherein the day rejoices, To no triumphant song your petals thrill, But send forth odours with the faint, soft voices Rising from hidden streams, when all is still. -- So doth lone prayer arise, Mingling with secret sighs, When grief unfolds, like you, Her breast, for heavenly dew In silent hours to fill. | 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 A DIRGE (1) by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS |
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