Father John's bread was made of rye, Felicite's bread was white; Father John loved the sun noon-high, Felicite, the moon at night. Father John drank wine with his bread; Felicite drank sweet milk; Father John loved flowers, pungent and red; Felicite, lilies soft as silk. Father John's soul was made of bronze, That God's salt was corroding; Felicite's soul was a wind that runs With a blue flame of foreboding. Between these two was the shadow of a dome That cut their lives in twain; But Dionysus led them home In a chariot of pain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOR WALT WHITMAN by DAVID IGNATOW BONNYBELL: THE GRAY SPHEX by EDGAR LEE MASTERS WAR VERSE (1914) by EZRA POUND THE WILD FLOWER'S SONG by WILLIAM BLAKE TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY by ROBERT BURNS NAMES by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |