Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: POET AND BOTANIST, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poet's Biography First Line: Fair are the bells of this bright-flowering weed Last Line: To tinge his verse as with his own heart's blood. Subject(s): Botany And Botanists; Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
FAIR are the bells of this bright-flowering weed; Nectar and pollen treasuries, where grope Innocent thieves; the Poet lets them ope And bloom, and wither, leaving fruit and seed To ripen; but the Botanist will speed To win the secret of the blossom's hope, And with his cruel knife and microscope Reveal the embryo life, too early freed. Yet the mild Poet can be ruthless too, Crushing the tender leaves to work a spell Of love or fame; the record of the bud He will not seek, but only bids it tell His thoughts, and render up its deepest hue To tinge his verse as with his own heart's blood. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB A LETTER by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN |
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