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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SPROUTING BOARD, by AL-ISRA'ILI First Line: Your cheeks were oh how fair Last Line: Reveals its wick is black. | |||
Your cheeks were oh how fair, How full of glowing grace Until that sprouted there, Your beauty to deface. And then your cheeks became A candle that, alack Extinguishing its flame, Reveals its wick is black. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LONELY HOUSE by EMILY DICKINSON RETRIBUTION by FRIEDRICH VON LOGAU ALMS by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY IN SCHOOL-DAYS by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER THE ROVER O' LOCHRYAN by HEW AINSLIE EARLY DAYS IN VERMONT by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY |
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