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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AWAKENING, by KATE HASSELL REYNOLDS First Line: The vase is broken and it lies in bits Last Line: Of candles burning in a darkened room. Subject(s): Pottery And Potters | |||
The vase is broken and it lies in bits -- A shattered dream of beauty at my feet; The Potter's careful work -- the glazier's task All gone for naught. About the room there flits Pale dust from crumbling petals of a rose That blossom'd in its clasp. Not hers to ask The why of living or if death be sweet -- Hers but to blossom for a day and leave A fragrance clinging round a broken vase -- This, ev'n tragedy cannot erase; An echo yet for some lost happiness -- A golden mem'ry for the soul's reprieve. O dream, that one man formed from senseless clay! Beauty lives on forever, and its loveliness Recks not the blossom space of one short day. Up from the ruins rises sweet perfume -- Sweeter than flowers in their radiant bloom -- More poignant than the last, long bitterness Of candles burning in a darkened room. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FACE JUGS: HOMAGE TO LANIER MEADERS by DAVID BOTTOMS POTTERY MAKER by MARGARET MARCHAND BROWN THE POTTERY MAKER by CAREY YATES BUSBY THE CONTRAST TO WATTS' HYMN 'THE POTTER AND THE CLAT' by JOHN BYROM CREATION by JULIA MAY COURTNEY THE FIRE VASE by NATHALIA CRANE MOMENT IN MARBLE by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER IN EARTHEN VESSELS by CHARLES WHARTON STORK TO MY HONORED FRIEND SIR ROBERT HOWARD by JOHN DRYDEN |
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