Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GYPSY HEAVEN, by JOAN BUCKLEY First Line: When all the seasons forming life have passed Last Line: Where I may dance beneath a laughing sky. Subject(s): Heaven; Seasons; Paradise | ||||||||
When all the seasons forming life have passed, With gifts of rain and trying times of drought, Till greybeard winter seals my sap at last And I may put no later blossoms out. Oh Lord, transplant me, not to ordered beds, Precisely made for cloister-pacing saints; Where pure and virtuous lilies raise their heads But every earthly laughter droops and faints. On Heaven's outer edge the wildflowers grow (I dreamed the place; a stream runs gaily by); It's there, dear Lord, that I would rather go, Where I may dance beneath a laughing sky. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE END OF LIFE by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 6 by CONRAD AIKEN THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#19): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND WINTER by MARVIN BELL THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR A SKELETON FOR MR. PAUL IN PARADISE; AFTER ALLAN GUISINGER by NORMAN DUBIE BEAUTY & RESTRAINT by DANIEL HALPERN HOW IT WILL HAPPEN, WHEN by DORIANNE LAUX |
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