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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SILENCE COMES TO A GARDEN, by MURRAY C. KIRK
First Line: Pale petals slowly spiral to the earth
Last Line: Each hope, like incensed bloom, we could not hold.
Subject(s): Memory; Silence
First Line: Pale petals slowly spiral to the earth
Last Line: Each hope, like incensed bloom, we could not hold.
Subject(s): Memory; Silence
Pale petals slowly spiral to the earth
And laden bees wing home across the wall
That rims this drift of bloom. Faint sounds of mirth,
And pulsing throb of toil, and echoed fall
Of harried footsteps in the street, are lost
In veiling dusk that stills the song of birds
And tints each whitened bud and leaf, like frost—
Then silence—little winds—remembered words.
Apart from restless dreams that light the sky
Of youth on silvered sweep of fragile wings,
A place within the soul is set, where lie
In memory, Life's lovely, shattered things.
And there, the dusk of years shall gently fold
Each hope, like incensed bloom, we could not hold.
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