Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NARCISSUS, by NELL BARNES KNORR


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NARCISSUS, by                    
First Line: Little brown bulb in a little brown bowl
Last Line: Little brown bulb how you've brightened our place!
Subject(s): Bulbs; Growth; Plants; Planting; Planters


Little brown bulb in a little brown bowl,
All dark and still.
You seem to be dead,
Have you really a head
Tucked down out of sight in the bowl on the sill?

Little green sprout shooting upward and out—
Tiny and trim.
How fast you're growing!
There's no way of knowing
What gives you such strength when you stalk is so slim.

Little warm water and light and some air—
Not much it seems.
But inside that heart of you
God holds a chart of you.
Little brown husks are the wrappings of dreams.

Comes a dark morning in bleak cold December,
Lo, up pops your face!
Six yellow eyes show
In six snow white skies, oh
Little brown bulb how you've brightened our place!





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