Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO MARIE, WITH A COPY OF THE TRANSLATION OF FAUST, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poet's Biography First Line: This plant, it may be, grew from vigorous seed Last Line: The form is mine, color and odor yours! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Faust; Plants; Translating & Interpreting; Planting; Planters | ||||||||
THIS plant, it may be, grew from vigor ous seed, Within the field of study set by Song; Sent from its sprouting germ, perchance, a throng Of roots even to that depth where passions breed; Chose its own time, and of its place took heed; Sucked fittest nutriment to make it strong: -- But you from every wayward season's wrong Did guard it, showering, at its changing need, Or dew of sympathy, or summer glow Of apprehension of the finer toil, And gave it, so, the nature that endures. Our secret this, the world can never know: You were the breeze and sunshine, I the soil: The form is mine, color and odor yours! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...KILLING THE PLANTS by JANE KENYON NOW I AM A PLANT, A WEED by KATHERINE MANSFIELD TANKA DIARY (5) by HARRYETTE MULLEN BEDOUIN [LOVE] SONG by BAYARD TAYLOR NATIONAL ODE; INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA by BAYARD TAYLOR |
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