Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WORLDS, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND


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WORLDS, by                    
First Line: I lived within a world of bloom
Last Line: Flowers at the thought of god.
Subject(s): Flowers; Religion; Theology


I lived within a world of bloom
Starry as pasque-flowers, blue and white,
Whose constellations burned the gloom.
A little hour, and then the light
Was lost. Upon my petulant lips
Lingered the wish that stars like these
Might burn unhidden by eclipse
In the cool firmament of trees.

I lived within a world of wings,
Watching the oriole and lark,
The circling gull, where water sings;
The vampire, lover of the dark.
I left these for a world of words;
Discovered in their boundary,
More music than in song of birds,
More joy than in spring's constancy.

Still seeking for some cloistered place
Lovelier than blossom, word or wing,
I found a world in one pale face
Illumined with love. Brief as the spring,
As restless pinions, lyric sound,
This beauty proved; and it was just
As finite and as firmly bound
To brief and crumbling worlds of dust.

Uncertain, swift and glamorous
Words come and go. Only the cold
Enduring and miraculous,
Flowers at the thought of God.





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