Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TULIPS, by PHRONSIE IRENE MARSH


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TULIPS, by                    
First Line: Flashes of color, living color
Last Line: But drop beside the yellow bowl -- and die.
Subject(s): Colors; Heaven; Tulips; Paradise


Flashes of color, living color --
Gold, crimson, purple and white --
Stretch themselves up to heaven
Out of a yellow bowl.

All too fair and delicate for mortals to touch,
Because the flashes of living color
No longer stretch themselves to heaven
When foldled by human hands,
But drop beside the yellow bowl -- and die.





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