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THE PASSION FLOWER HATH SPRUNG UP TALL by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

Last Line: Tending toward the sky
Subject(s): PASSION FLOWERS;
The Passion Flower hath sprung up tall,
Hath east and west its arms outspread;
The heliotrope shoots up its head
To clear the shadow of the wall:
Down looks the Passion Flower,
The heliotrope looks upward still.
Hour by hour
On the heavenward hill.

The Passion Flower blooms red or white,
A shadowed white, a cloudless red;
Caressingly it droops its head.
Its leaves, its tendrils, from the light:
Because that lowlier flower
Looks up, but mounts not half so high.
Hour by hour
Tending toward the sky.



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