Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DESPOT, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poet's Biography First Line: The garden mould was damp and chill Last Line: That had not know that they were weeds. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Socialism | ||||||||
THE garden mould was damp and chill, Winter had had his brutal will Since over all the year's content His devastating legions went. Then Spring's bright banners came: there woke Millions of little growing folk Who thrilled to know the winter done, Gave thanks, and strove towards the sun. Not so the elect; reserved, and slow To trust a stranger-sun and grow, They hesitated, cowered and hid Waiting to see what others did. Yet even they, a little, grew, Put out prim leaves to day and dew, And lifted level formal heads In their appointed garden beds. The gardener came: he coldly loved The flowers that lived as he approved, That duly, decorously grew As he, the despot, meant them to. He saw the wildlings flower more brave And bright than any cultured slave; Yet, since he had not set them there, He hated them for being fair. So he uprooted, one by one The free things that had loved the sun, The happy, eager, fruitful seeds That had not know that they were weeds. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. CONCLUSION by EDWARD CARPENTER THE SOCIALIST AND THE SUFFRAGIST by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN THE NEW MILLENNIUM; A VISION IN THE STRAND by ANDREW LANG MICE by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY WHY I VOTED THE SOCIALIST TICKET by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY A LITTLE SONG ABOUT CHARITY by THOMAS MCGRATH A WARRANT FOR PABLO NERUDA by THOMAS MCGRATH BLUES FOR THE OLD REVOLUTIONARY WOMAN by THOMAS MCGRATH BLUES FOR WARREN by THOMAS MCGRATH A BALLAD OF CANTERBURY by EDITH BLAND NESBIT |
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