Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IN A GREENHOUSE, by FLORA T. MERCER


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IN A GREENHOUSE, by                    
First Line: Long rows of dull white boxes filled with / loam
Last Line: To all the beauty of infinity.
Subject(s): Flowers; Greenhouses; Plants; Spring; Planting; Planters


LONG rows of dull white boxes filled with loam;
Springy paths of board on softening earth;
The gleam of whitewash-spattered glass;
A dank, oppressive earth-smell, warmly sweet;
A rising host of prim carnation stems
That grow mid checkered rows of twine;
Workmen, clad in overalls, digging stolidly
To fill the brick-red flower pots;
All these I mark in passing to the room
In which the roses, cut, are lying.
Roses, the hue of a river of blood;
Roses, the color of sun-swept sky;
Roses, the cream of an ivory ball;
A miracle, no less, they lie there,
Translating, in the splendor of their loveliness,
The moldy loam in which they grew,
The heavy air, the stolid workman's care,
Into a beauty which is close akin
To all the beauty of Infinity.





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