Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FROST TO-NIGHT, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poet's Biography First Line: Apple-green west and an orange bar Last Line: Half sad, half proud, my arms I fill. Subject(s): Cold; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Life | ||||||||
APPLE-GREEN west and an orange bar, And the crystal eye of a lone, one star... And, "Child, take the shears and cut what you will. Frost to-night -- so clear and dead-still." Then, I sally forth, half sad, half proud, And I come to the velvet, imperial crowd, The wine-red, the gold, the crimson, the pied, -- The dahlias that reign by the garden-side. The dahlias I might not touch till to-night! A gleam of the shears in the fading light, And I gathered them all, -- the splendid throng, And in one great sheaf I bore them along. In my garden of Life with its all-late flowers, I heed a Voice in the shrinking hours: "Frost to-night -- so clear and dead-still ..." Half sad, half proud, my arms I fill. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PRIVILEGE OF BEING by ROBERT HASS SEAWATER STIFFENS CLOTH by JANE HIRSHFIELD SAYING YES TO LIVING by DAVID IGNATOW THE WORLD IS SO DIFFICULT TO GIVE UP by DAVID IGNATOW |
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