Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 5. VIOLET, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poet's Biography First Line: Small fragrant print of april's feet Last Line: And lay it here among my rhymes. Subject(s): April; Flowers; Passion; Violets | ||||||||
SMALL fragrant print of April's feet; Dream in the dewy grass, more sweet Than virgin visions mavis weaves At dawn beneath the sunlit eaves, Secret as passion unconfest, Within the dreaming maiden's breast, Tinct with her veins' delicious hue, And, like her lashes, touched with dew: Violet, -- kneeling near your shrine, Starred with the golden celandine, Like sunflakes on a coverlet Which golden dreams of love beget, -- I, feeling past your petal's hem Along your cool and slender stem, Pluck your unravished bloom betimes, And lay it here among my rhymes. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HEAVY VIOLETS by BARBARA GUEST THE YELLOW VIOLET by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT WAR IS KIND: 23 by STEPHEN CRANE SONNET by ALICE RUTH MOORE DUNBAR-NELSON HOW VIOLETS CAME BLUE by ROBERT HERRICK UNDER THE VIOLETS by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES THE FADED VIOLET by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH A BALLAD OF SIR KAY by NEWMAN HOWARD |
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