Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BEAUTY MARKS AN URGE, by HALLIE DAVIS MASS


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BEAUTY MARKS AN URGE, by                    
First Line: The grass returns to spears of brilliant green
Last Line: Beauty is as old as the love of god.
Subject(s): Beauty


The grass returns to spears of brilliant green,
And lilacs tip their branches with gay plumes,
On lively trees bird choruses convene
To warble songs through orchards' choice perfumes.

Now earth is eager, life reflects her mood,
For wounds that deepened in the wintertime
Assuage, as Spring with flower and feathered brood
Proclaims renascent joy in ardent pantomime.

Beauty marks an urge ancient as the sun,
In caroling of birds, in budded rod;
And Spring with earth a joyous thing has done . . .
Beauty is as old as the love of God.





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