|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO BE SENT IN A MAY BASKET, by HELEN HOOVEN SANTMYER
First Line: Here's just one sprig of water-cress, another one of
Last Line: We gathered them together once, and so I send you these.
Subject(s): Plants; Wellesley College; Planting; Planters
First Line: Here's just one sprig of water-cress, another one of
Last Line: We gathered them together once, and so I send you these.
Subject(s): Plants; Wellesley College; Planting; Planters
HERE'S just one sprig of water-cress, another one of mint.
A brook o'ergrown, each stepping stone
Pillowed in green and half unseen.
When you were young, you loved the brook, and so I put them in't.
A handful of spring beauties from the hillside I have sent.
Wide meadow land where, hand in hand,
The winds sweep o'er the flow'r-starred floor.
Together on that hill we wondered where the sunsets went.
A frail swamp iris blooming in the reeds I found.
Tall reeds that sway, and far away
A bird-call harsh across the marsh.
The wild, wide-reaching swamp was once our Holy Ground.
The deep greenwood is carpeted with ferns and rueanemones.
Cathedral vast, with shadows cast
By swaying trees and wand'ring breeze.
We gathered them together once, and so I send you these.
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!
Other Poems of Interest...
KILLING THE PLANTS by JANE KENYON
NOW I AM A PLANT, A WEED by KATHERINE MANSFIELD
TANKA DIARY (5) by HARRYETTE MULLEN
FOR OLD BELIEFS FORSAKEN by HELEN HOOVEN SANTMYER