Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OCOTILLO, by WINIFRED GRAY STEWART First Line: Many-tentacled / groping toward the sun Last Line: That blessed and cheated them. Subject(s): Ocotillo (shrub) | ||||||||
Many-tentacled, Groping toward the sun, Spring-tipped with scarlet ... Jets of flame ... flickering Against smouldering gray Smoke-bush... Leaping points of fire On white-hot Sky silver... Earth-born, Nurtured by sun and rain, Long leaning wands of gypsy winds That roam the broad clean silent places... The bleeding flowers Of the ocotillo, These are the dear lost dreams Of all dead losers Who died loving the desert, That blessed and cheated them. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FLOWER OF BEAUTY by GEORGE DARLEY THE OLD CHURCHYARD OF BONCHURCH by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 72 by PHILIP SIDNEY AUTUMN; WRITTEN IN THE GROUNDS OF MARTIN COLE, ESQ. by BERNARD BARTON THESE TIMES by GERTRUDE RYDER BENNETT PSALM 28. AD TE DOMINE CLAMABO by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 39 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: IMR EL KAIS by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |
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