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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PORTRAIT SONNETS: 3, by HENRY BELLAMANN Poet's Biography First Line: It was so much the way that tulips bloom Last Line: And perfect things about brief-living clay. Subject(s): Tulips | |||
It was so much the way that tulips bloom, Her coming and the way she had with me -- So much the way a tulip mocks a tree Which late in April keeps a winter gloom -- That I, like one who guards in a close room Precarious fires, was wholly glad to see Such light, incautious burning -- glad that she, Completely torch, made gay her certain doom. But since those bright, disturbing flowers are dark And lie, more ash than ember, on the ground, I feel a purpose in the brilliant play That was of very life, and less a mark Of folly than of knowing quite profound And perfect things about brief-living clay. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TULIPS AND ADDRESSES by EDWARD FIELD A YELLOW YULIP by PHILIP LEVINE TULIPS by FRANCES HALLEY BROCKETT TULIP BLOOMS by BARBARA RUTH COLLINS ON A MARCH MORNING by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY TO A BED OF TULIPS by ROBERT HERRICK TULIPS by PHRONSIE IRENE MARSH |
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