Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, JASMINE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE


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First Line: Of all the woodland flowers of earlier spring
Last Line: A star of music in a fiery cloud!
Variant Title(s): Sonnet
Subject(s): Jasmine


OF all the woodland flowers of earlier spring,
These golden jasmines, each an air-hung bower,
Meet for the Queen of Fairies' tiring hour,
Seem loveliest and most fair in blossoming;
How yonder mock-bird thrills his fervid wing
And long, lithe throat, where twinkling flower on flower
Rains the globed dewdrops down, a diamond shower,
O'er his brown head poised as in act to sing;
Lo! the swift sunshine floods the flowery urns,
Girding their delicate gold with matchless light,
Till the blent life of bough, leaf, blossom, burns;
Then, then outbursts the mock-bird clear and loud,
Half-drunk with perfume, veiled by radiance bright,
A star of music in a fiery cloud!





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