Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 12. EPILOGUE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poet's Biography First Line: As on the plain shoot up the wheatstalks Last Line: Than pipes or than fiddles. Subject(s): Flowers | ||||||||
AS on the plain shoot up the wheatstalks So do the thoughts in the spirit of man Grow up and waver; But the gentle thoughts of the poet Are as the red and blue-colour'd flowers Merrily blooming between them. Red and blue-colour'd flowers! The surly reaper rejects you as useless, Wooden flails all-scornfully thresh you, Even the needy traveller, Whom your sight rejoices and quickens, Shaketh his head, And calleth you pretty weeds; But the rustic virgin, The twiner of garlands, Doth honour and pluck you, And with you decketh her beauteous locks, And thus adorn'd, makes haste to the dance, Where pipes and fiddles sweetly are sounding, Or to the silent beech-tree, Where the voice of the loved one still sweeter doth sound Than pipes or than fiddles. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THEY SAW THE PROBLEM by MARK JARMAN SHAKE THE SUPERFLUX! by DAVID LEHMAN THE M??TIER OF BLOSSOMING by DENISE LEVERTOV TANKA DIARY (6) by HARRYETTE MULLEN VARIATIONS: 17 by CONRAD AIKEN FORCED BLOOM by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN |
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