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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
JAPONICA BUSH, by JOSEPHINE PINCKNEY
First Line: Tranced in utter dreams she stands
Last Line: This is iseult of the white hands.
Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Women
First Line: Tranced in utter dreams she stands
Last Line: This is iseult of the white hands.
Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Women
Tranced in utter dreams she stands,
Cool Iseult of the White Hands;
Wife whose beauty, maiden-dying,
Beauty-wise is death-defying.
Earth that took her prisoner
Must somewhere relinquish her!
Here are leaves of piercing green
(For jealousy of a Cornish queen),
And the white, white flesh of flowers --
Flesh-white in the sun-white hours,
Wraith-white in the white-lipped moon
Who has seen, in sea-lost lands,
Trees and queens untimely hewn.
This is Iseult of the White Hands.
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