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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET, by ANDRE-FERDINAND HEROLD Poet's Biography
First Line: Beloved, all the dust has turned to flower
Last Line: That eros fondles with a breath like fire.
Subject(s): Flowers; Sonnet (as Literary Form)
First Line: Beloved, all the dust has turned to flower
Last Line: That eros fondles with a breath like fire.
Subject(s): Flowers; Sonnet (as Literary Form)
BELOVÉD, all the dust has turned to flower,
The frolic Centaurs like spurred cavalry
Charge on; the ships, sail sunward, quit the quay
Where winter through they shrank from the sea's power.
Now are the temple columns made a tower
Of trailing roses and convolvuli;
And Dryads from each happy forest tree
Hold smooth white hands out in the glad green bower.
Come! for the ways with flowers are aflame.
The lily's white, the poppy's hue of shame,
Or the blue violet wilt thou cull for pledge?
Now hill and vale in joyousness conspire.
Come! wander on the wide green meadow's edge
That Eros fondles with a breath like fire.
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