Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FLAME INVISIBLE, by RICHARD HARRY HART


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FLAME INVISIBLE, by                    
First Line: By night flames yellow flower challenges
Last Line: The seven perfect colors of the sky.


By night flame's yellow flower challenges
The dullest eye and warms the stiffest tongue.
Words leap like hounds unleashed, starting the young
Unready fawns of sense that trembling stand,
Drawn by the magnet of the silvered note,
Warned by the menace of the curving hand.

But in the sun's advance night's torches fail,
The tinder's over-ready spark is spent;
The morning streets lie blemishing and stale.
In airless halls and shops the sluggish blood
Taxes the heart's thrust in its slow ascent.
Deep in the body's cavity, a shadowed pool,
The breath stirs scarcely; and no hand is cool.

Still through the hollow noon's fatigue,
Up from the pulse that holds its secret fare
Leaps Heaven's flower, flame invisible,
Unsensed, untended in the midday glare
Save where a mist of pity may reveal
As a brief phantom to its parent eye
In trembling filaments less gross than air
The seven perfect colors of the sky.





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