Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FALSE START, by MABEL DODGE LUHAN


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First Line: Ask me no more of the full flower's speech
Last Line: I sicken from sunlight but give me the rain, for I am but seed.
Subject(s): Growth; Nature; Plants; Rain; Sun; Planting; Planters


Ask me no more of the full flower's speech,
Tell me no more of the ripe fruit's need,
For I am tired of trying to reach the fruit in the seed.

Leave me awhile, and I will recover
In darkness and night.
It was too soon for me to discover growth in the light.

Bear with my weakness, my failure, my pain,
Grant me this -- only this darkness I need.
I sicken from sunlight but give me the rain, for I am but seed.





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