Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PASQUE FLOWERS, by WILLIAM LYLE FLANAGAN


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PASQUE FLOWERS, by                    
First Line: Lilac twilight blown
Last Line: Are not more beautiful!
Subject(s): Flowers


Lilac twilight blown
Across a frost-numbed waking slope . . .
Ethereal burning stars clear as morning air . . .
Tears of Mary sprung to bloom
Beneath a blood-stained cross . . .
Iris mist, brushed low upon earth . . .

Pale buds have loosed faint dreams,
Floating, floating dreams that sift
Through lazy sunlight languidly
As ropes of smoke
From smouldering wood-fires,
Silver . . . thin . . . faint, tenuous dreams
Wrapped in fantastic arabesques
So spun that cobwebs
Inlaid with turquoise dew at morn
Are not more beautiful!





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