Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOR JIM, EASTER EVE, by ANNE SPENCER Poet's Biography First Line: If ever a garden was gethsemane Last Line: Last comfort in gethsemane. Alternate Author Name(s): Bannister, Anne Bethel Scales | ||||||||
If ever a garden was Gethsemane, with old tombs set high against the crumpled olive tree -- and lichen, this, my garden, has been to me. For such as I none other is so sweet: Lacking old tombs, here stands my grief, and certainly its ancient tree. Peace is here and in every season a quiet beauty. The sky falling about me Evenly to the compass . . . What is sorrow but tenderness now in this earth-close frame of land and sky falling constantly into horizons of east and west, north and south; what is pain but happiness here amid these green and wordless patterns, indefinite texture of blade and leaf: Beauty of an old, old tree, Last comfort in Gethsemane. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LETTER TO MY SISTER by ANNE SPENCER LINES TO A NASTURTIUM (A LOVER MUSES) by ANNE SPENCER THE WIFE-WOMAN by ANNE SPENCER THE LILY, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE |
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