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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FRINGED GENTIAN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography
First Line: God made a little gentian
Last Line: "creator! Shall I bloom?"
Subject(s): Flowers; Gentians; Fringed Gentians
First Line: God made a little gentian
Last Line: "creator! Shall I bloom?"
Subject(s): Flowers; Gentians; Fringed Gentians
God made a little gentian;
It tried to be a rose
And failed, and all the summer laughed.
But just before the snows
There came a purple creature
That ravished all the hill;
And summer hid her forehead,
And mockery was still.
The frosts were her condition;
The Tyrian would not come
Until the North evoked it.
"Creator! shall I bloom?"
Other Poems of Interest...
TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
BAVARIAN GENTIANS by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE
FRINGED GENTIANS by AMY LOWELL
GENTIAN by ELIZABETH GREEN CRANE
THE BLUE GENTIAN by LAURA NELSON PLUMMER
THE PRESSED GENTIAN by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
THE BLUE GENTIANS by EDWARD RYAN WOODLE