Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ..... AND WHITE THE WHITE INVOKES, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG


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..... AND WHITE THE WHITE INVOKES, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The breasts of white camellias lead the way
Last Line: "that soothe her with an echoed, ""innocent."
Subject(s): Camellias; Cypress Trees; Pine Trees; Sea; Trees; Ocean


The breasts of white camellias lead the way
Through boskages of cypress and of pine,
The lips of red camellias kiss and slay
Confusions of the blood and quaff the wine;
The leaves and arms and feathers of the old,
Golden and pale mimosas and live oaks
Embrace, protect two bodies in the mould
Where red the red and white the white invokes:

That she was innocent, is now the sigh
She shudders with, imploring all the trees
To stretch a dome of green, wall out the sky,
And fill the cave with silences of seas,
Whose calm no passion's wave has ever rent --
That soothe her with an echoed, "innocent."





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