Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GREEN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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First Line: Dear nature's love color, as man's is red
Last Line: Weaving an endless metamorphosis.
Subject(s): Green (color); Metamorphosis


Dear Nature's love color, as man's is red, --
Flushing the bosom of her swelling plains,
Mirrored in all her limpid flowing veins,
And on the sweet brows of her hills outspread, --
Your charm to all fair color charms is wed:
Royal as purple all your oak-green reigns;
Like girlish pink and white your birch-green lanes,
And with the sky's true blue your lawns are fed.
How does one color body many souls!
Young cedar-green laughs happy in the sun;
The green of elms a sage discourse outrolls;
Of hemlock green are plots and poisons spun;
A color drama with one actor this,
Weaving an endless metamorphosis.





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