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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE UNATTAINABLE, by EMMETT MALOY COUNTS First Line: You are a fragile and exclusive flower Last Line: Not to be held, but always to be cherished. Subject(s): Courtship; Hope; Love - Cultural Differences; Optimism | |||
You are a fragile and exclusive flower, From me apart, behind a greenhouse window; A star suspended in the heavens' bower, So near, and yet so far beyond the rainbow. You are the low, green shore of an island Across a gulf where I cannot be ferried; A cloudlet lingering atop a highland, Upon whose steeps my hopes are dead and buried. You were the object of a hopeless journey ... Along that path my footprints deep have perished; Not to be gained—the way to you too thorny; Not to be held, but always to be cherished. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOPE IS NOT FOR THE WISE by ROBINSON JEFFERS SONNET by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON SPRING FLOODS by MAURICE BARING SONNET: 9. HOPE by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES |
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