Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ALPINE VIOLETS; IMITATED FROM DE BELLAY, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER



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ALPINE VIOLETS; IMITATED FROM DE BELLAY, by                     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!





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