Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THANKSGIVING FOR FLOWERS, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON


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First Line: You bring me flowers - behold my shaded room
Last Line: It leaves the world on flower with memories.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Flowers


YOU bring me flowers -- behold my shaded room
Is grown all glorious and alive with Light.
Moonshine of pallid primroses, and bright
Daffodil-suns that light the way o' the tomb.

You bring me dreams -- through sleep's close-lidded gloom,
Sad violets mourn for Sappho all the night,
Where purple saffrons make antique delight
Mid crown'd memorials of Narcissus' doom.

A scent of herbs now sets me musing on
Men dead i' the fennel-beds on Marathon:
My flowers, my dreams and I shall lie as dead!

Flowers fade, dreams wake, men die; but never dies
The soul whereby these things were perfected, --
It leaves the world on flower with memories.





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