Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LEGEND OF THE PASQUE FLOWER, by R. ALICE FIKSDAL First Line: There's a legend as old as the calendar year Last Line: Who heed the season's clarion call. Subject(s): Christianity; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Legends; The Resurrection | ||||||||
There's a legend as old as the calendar year, That I would tell you, my children dear, Of a Paschal eve and a Paschal morn When first the Pasque flower fair was born: Long, long ago, on a Paschal eve, By Cherubim, the sacred shreve, Sweet Mother Mary's tears were found Like gleaming dew upon the ground Before the Holy Sepulchre; And reverencing the grief of Her, He lifted high his gleaming sword, And blessed with sanctificial word Each of the Virgin's holy tears, And charged them: "Live through all the years As harbingers of every spring, The resurrection joy to bring." He touched them gently, bade them rise, And turn their faces to the skies. Lo! on the Rich Man's barren cru Were grown a thousand blossoms new! And so, at Paschal tide each year, Up through the tangled grasses sere, The modest little flowers peep From out the frozen ground, to keep The Holy Easter-tide with all Who heed the Season's clarion call. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EASTER EVE by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON EASTER SUNDAY by LUCILLE CLIFTON GOD SEND EASTER by LUCILLE CLIFTON NOT THE CUCKOLD'S DREAM; FOR SAM PEREIRA by NORMAN DUBIE EASTER HYMN by GEORGE SANTAYANA I DEFINE THE DARKNESS CORRECT: THE FESTIVAL OF THE FRERES LUMIERES by ELENI SIKELIANOS SPANISH EASTER: 1926 by CONRAD AIKEN |
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