Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ALPINE VIOLETS; IMITATED FROM DE BELLAY, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poet's Biography First Line: You tiny flames of blue Last Line: I would not pass! Subject(s): Flowers; Violets | ||||||||
You tiny flames of blue, Whose naive barbaric hue On grey rock-slope, Seem like the sky let through A painted window new, Grant me your hope! I weave thin coronets, Slim madrigalettes, Loose coronals of rhyme, For you, whose blossoming Turns summer into spring, Defeating Time. Where 'gainst the frozen snows, Rosy blue, each one glows Amid sparse grass: Like young girls with tossed hair Ring-dancing; O, from there I would not pass! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HEAVY VIOLETS by BARBARA GUEST THE YELLOW VIOLET by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT WAR IS KIND: 23 by STEPHEN CRANE SONNET by ALICE RUTH MOORE DUNBAR-NELSON HOW VIOLETS CAME BLUE by ROBERT HERRICK UNDER THE VIOLETS by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES THE FADED VIOLET by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH ARIZONA POEMS: 2. MEXICAN QUARTER by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER |
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