Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OCOTILLO, by WINIFRED GRAY STEWART First Line: Many-tentacled / groping toward the sun Last Line: That blessed and cheated them. Subject(s): Ocotillo (shrub) | ||||||||
Many-tentacled, Groping toward the sun, Spring-tipped with scarlet ... Jets of flame ... flickering Against smouldering gray Smoke-bush... Leaping points of fire On white-hot Sky silver... Earth-born, Nurtured by sun and rain, Long leaning wands of gypsy winds That roam the broad clean silent places... The bleeding flowers Of the ocotillo, These are the dear lost dreams Of all dead losers Who died loving the desert, That blessed and cheated them. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FRAGMENTS WRITTEN WHILE TRAVELING...A MIDWESTERN HEAT WAVE by JAMES GALVIN AT CASTLE WOOD by EMILY JANE BRONTE EPITAPH ON THOMAS CLERE, SURREY'S FAITHFUL FRIEND AND FOLLOWER by HENRY HOWARD THE HAPPY LIFE by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS BEN JONSON ENTERTAINS A MAN FROM STRATFORD by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON SONNET: 98 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE SHEPHERD'S PIPE: SEVENTH ECLOGUE by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) LINES WRITTEN ON A TUMBLER by ROBERT BURNS |
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