Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE VEIL: THE FLOWER, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE



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First Line: Horizon to horizon, lies outspread
Last Line: He sought companion in earth's dwelling-place.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Flowers


Horizon to horizon, lies outspread
The tenting firmament of day and night;
Wherein are winds at play; and planets shed
Amid the stars their gentle gliding light.

The huge world's sun flames on the snow-capped hills;
Cindrous his heat burns in the sandy plain;
With myriad spume-bows roaring ocean swills
The cold profuse abundance of the rain.

And man -- a transient object in this vast,
Sighs o'er a universe transcending thought,
Afflicted by vague bodings of the past,
Driven toward a future, unforeseen, unsought.

Yet, see him, stooping low to naked weed
That meeks its blossom in his anxious eye,
Mark how he grieves, as if his heart did bleed,
And wheels his wondrous features to the sky;
As if, transfigured by so small a grace,
He sought Companion in earth's dwelling-place.





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