Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CALIFORNIA HILLS, by DORIS CALDWELL First Line: You would not need to flaunt yourself for me Last Line: Withhold your beauty or my heart will break! Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) | ||||||||
You would not need to flaunt yourself for me, With plum-red mouth and lupine in your hair, And the sweet shamelessness of shoulders bare; I should not need your grape-blue wine to be Tempted to love. This would be ecstasy Enough -- if sometime you would let me share The quiet of your tears, the still despair Of winter's frosty-fingered treachery. You are too kind -- when I should be content With half your favors, half your beauty spent; You spill your wine and waste your mad perfume. Behind my crowding pulse there is not room For the high bright desire that you awake. Withhold your beauty or my heart will break! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CALIFORNIA SORROW: MOUNTAIN VIEW by MARY KINZIE CONTRA MORTEM: THE MOUNTAIN FASTNESS by HAYDEN CARRUTH GREEN MOUNTAIN IDYL by HAYDEN CARRUTH IF IT WERE NOT FOR YOU by HAYDEN CARRUTH CALIFORNIA COAST by DORIS CALDWELL |
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