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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DESERT BRIDE, by MARY MILLER BEARD First Line: When sunset colors paint the desert land Last Line: She shuts her eyes and weds him after dusk. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating | |||
When sunset colors paint the desert land A yucca, like a pearly minaret Peers through a mist of rose and violet And reaches up her white and fragile hand To where her muted organ-keys are fanned By prairie winds, till all her bells are set To vesper chimes for fear that Night forget A lonely virgin on the desert sand. Night hears the yucca bells that call to prayer And shows to her his royal purple tent, Moonlit and fragrant with sweet-scented musk. He fills her bells with jeweled stars to wear And there, with shy and innocent consent She shuts her eyes and weds him after dusk. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WAITRESSING IN THE ROOM WITH A THOUSAND MOONS by MATTHEA HARVEY CANDIED YAMS' by TERRANCE HAYES DINNER OF HERBS by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN THE BANQUET SONG by KENNETH KOCH SPLITTING AN ORDER by TED KOOSER ODE TO FEAR by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) CONCORD HYMN; SUNG AT COMPLETION OF CONCORD MONUMENT, 1836 by RALPH WALDO EMERSON |
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