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Classic and Contemporary Poetry | |||
In the corner of a flower-shop there was (I had never seen one before) a vase of edelweiss. I counted them: twelve Lazaruses risen in their gray shroud on frothy ground. I looked at them lovingly. "They're not dead," I said, "they're only sleeping." Used by permission of Story Line Press. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BALLAD OF NOAH'S DAUGHTER by ROSSANA OMBRES ENSARING FLOWER OF PSALMS by ROSSANA OMBRES EXCURSION TO RAVENNA OF A YOUNG GIRL WITH PARENTS: AFTERNOON by ROSSANA OMBRES EXCURSION TO RAVENNA OF A YOUNG GIRL WITH PARENTS: MORNING by ROSSANA OMBRES STRANGE ADVENTURE by ROSSANA OMBRES SANDHILL PEOPLE by CARL SANDBURG TO ALISON CUNNINGHAM; FROM HER BOY by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON BROWN OF OSSAWATOMIE [DECEMBER 2, 1859] by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER TO JOANNA, ON SENDING ME THE LEAF OF A FLOWER ... WORDSWORTH'S GARDEN by BERNARD BARTON |
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