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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MEADOW-SAFFRON, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The meadow is pretty but poisonous in the fall Last Line: This great field ill-flowered by the fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas | |||
The meadow is pretty but poisonous in the fall. The cows at pasture there Slowly absorb the venom; The meadow-saffron, lilac, ringed, Flourishes there your eyes are like that flower Violet as its dark ring and as the fall And from your eyes my days seep in slow poison. With a clamor the children pour out of school With their jackets on, playing harmonicas. They gather the meadow-saffrons, which are like mothers there Daughters of their daughters and color of your eyelids Waving as flowers wave in the wild wind The shepherd of the flock sings sweetly While slowly lowing the cows leave once for all This great field ill-flowered by the fall. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HUNTING PHEASANTS IN A CORNFIELD by ROBERT BLY THREE KINDS OF PLEASURES by ROBERT BLY QUESTION IN A FIELD by LOUISE BOGAN THE LAST MOWING by ROBERT FROST FIELD AND FOREST by RANDALL JARRELL AN EXPLANATION by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON IN FIELDS OF SUMMER by GALWAY KINNELL AUTUMN by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE |
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