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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BREATH, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poet's Biography
First Line: A trembling crest
Last Line: It signifies a flame.
Subject(s): Nature; Winter
First Line: A trembling crest
Last Line: It signifies a flame.
Subject(s): Nature; Winter
A TREMBLING crest
Of smoke, the winter sky
Congeals to bloom,
To please a poet's eye:
A slender reed
Arisen from some gold
Recess or womb
Of flame to spaces cold.
Between the twigs,
That for a nest are spun
On flight's grey loom,
A sapphire thread may run:
And so between the grey,
The woven boughs of trees,
A little plume
Of mist the poet sees:
It will suffice --
Too scant a breath to name --
For him to whom
It signifies a flame.
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