These flowers are alabaster censers swung gayly from the hands of small twin slave boys, and their burning is redolent of tropic magic. These blossoms are a pair of dancers, she in cool white taffeta with green sandals, he in a snowy satin blouse with emerald trousers: as they pirouette, how stately they are! These two gardenias are a solo and its accompaniment -- the piping of a flute to the arpeggio of a harp, a harmony which sings: "I love you; I believe in you!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INTOXICATION by EMILY DICKINSON SONNET: 27 by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL ODES I, 9. TO WINTER by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS A HOLIDAY by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE SONNET: TO A CRITIC by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON THE UNSPOKEN by ANNE MILLAY BREMER PRIVATE DEVOTION by PHOEBE HINSDALE BROWN |