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 | ||||||||
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 |
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