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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WEEDS, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White with daisies and red with sorrel Last Line: The blood too bright, the brow accurst. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Weeds | |||
White with daisies and red with sorrel And empty, empty under the sky! -- Life is a quest and love a quarrel -- Here is a place for me to lie. Daisies spring from damnèd seeds, And this red fire that here I see Is a worthless crop of crimson weeds, Cursed by farmers thriftily. But here, unhated for an hour, The sorrel runs in ragged flame, The daisy stands, a bastard flower, Like flowers that bear an honest name. And here a while, where no wind brings The baying of a pack athirst, May sleep the sleep of blessèd things, The blood too bright, the brow accurst. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JUST THE WIND FOR A SOUND, SOFTLY by CARL PHILLIPS TO THE DANDELION by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL PREFACE by THEODORE RUSSELL WEISS THE FIRST DANDELION by WALT WHITMAN AFTERNOON ON A HILL by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY |
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