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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MAGNOLIA GARDENS, by AMY LOWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a disappointment Last Line: In the marsh-grasses on the opposite bank Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; Gardens & Gardening | |||
IT was a disappointment, For I do not like magenta, And the garden was a fire of magenta Exploding like a bomb into the light-colored peace of a spring afternoon. Not wistaria dropping through Spanish moss, Not cherokees sprinkling the tops of trees with moon-shaped stars, Not the little pricked-out blooms of banksia roses, Could quench the flare of raw magenta. Rubens women shaking the fatness of their bodies In an opulent egotism Till the curves and colors of flesh Are nauseous to the sight, So this magenta. Hateful, Reeking with sensuality, Bestial, obscene- I remember you as something to be forgotten. But I cherish the smooth sweep of the colorless river, And the thin, clear song of the red-winged blackbirds In the marsh-grasses on the opposite bank | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NOVEMBER GARDEN: AN ELEGY by ANDREW HUDGINS AN ENGLISH GARDEN IN AUSTRIA (SEEN AFTER DER ROSENKAVALIER) by RANDALL JARRELL ACROSS THE BROWN RIVER by GALWAY KINNELL A DESERTED GARDEN by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS NOT THE SWEET CICELY OF GERARDES HERBALL by MARGARET AVISON |
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