Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN OPAL, by EDNAH PROCTOR CLARKE HAYES Poet's Biography First Line: A rose of fire shut in a veil of snow Last Line: And now they pale that they have been so bold. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings | ||||||||
A ROSE of fire shut in a veil of snow, An April gleam athwart a misted sky: A jewel -- a soul! gaze deep if thou wouldst know The flame-wrought spell of its pale witchery; And now each tremulous beauty lies revealed, And now the drifted snow doth beauty shield. So my shy love, aneath her kerchief white, Holdeth the glamour of the East in fee; Warm Puritan -- who fears her own delight, Who trembleth over that she yieldeth me. And now her lips her heart's rich flame have told; And now they pale that they have been so bold. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WHY I MIGHT GO TO THE NEXT FOOTBALL GAME by DENIS JOHNSON THE POOL by ALEXANDER ANDERSON COZY APOLOGIA; FOR FRED by RITA DOVE YOU NOW HOLDING THIS BOOK IN HAND by ALICE NOTLEY FALLING IN LOVE IN SPAIN OR MEXICO by RON PADGETT WHEN LOVE WAS BORN by SARA TEASDALE A GOODBYE by EDNAH PROCTOR CLARKE HAYES |
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