Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE MEASURE, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER


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THE MEASURE, by                    
First Line: Now frail the flower and strong the weed
Last Line: Measures the long step of the sun.
Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Nature; Planets; World


Now frail the flower and strong the weed,
The shaggy vine sprawls on the ledge,
The spider's rope, the bearded seed
Float on still air to strike the hedge.

In space, magnetic pull and ray
Have made earth stagger and turn back;
But here the blue grape points the way
A planet keeps its curving track.

Not as we bind the stalk and sheaf
The abstract tasks of sky are done,
Yet at my door the shrivelled leaf
Measures the long step of the sun.





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