Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FLORA IN JANUARY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poet's Biography First Line: The goddess slept. About her where she lay Last Line: And christmas-roses made a veil above her. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Flowers; January; Spring | ||||||||
The goddess slept. About her where she lay Dead pansies, fragrant still, and the myriad rose: Adream 'mid the fallen drift, she woke one day, And the blooms stirred, seeing her eyes unclose. The oaks and beeches stood in disarray, Gaunt, spectral, dark, in dismal phantom rows; She smiled, and there was a shimmer 'mid the grey And sudden fall of the first winter-snows. But when; tired with the icy blossoms of the air, She slept once more, and all the snow was over, She dreamed of Spring and saw his sunlit hair, And heard the whisper of her laughing lover: But while she dreamed, the dead blooms had grown fair And Christmas-roses made a veil above her. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPRING LEMONADE by TONY HOAGLAND A SPRING SONG by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN SPRING'S RETURN by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD SPRING FLOODS by MAURICE BARING SPRING IN WINTER by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES SPRING ON THE PRAIRIE by HERBERT BATES |
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