Classic and Contemporary Poetry
YUCCA, by MARIE TODD First Line: Yucca, yucca, burning white Last Line: Holding high your candle's gleam. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Yucca Plants | ||||||||
Yucca, yucca, burning white, Desert candle, limpid light, Keep your waxen flame aglow Where the sage and grease-wood grow. Keep your taper burning bright Like a faithful acolyte. Does your candle waft a prayer, Or are you just waiting there? Yucca moths will seek your light Shining bravely through the night. Pay no heed to maunderings; Let them singe their ardent wings. Vestal Virgin of the waste, In your temple safe incased, Be contented just to dream, Holding high your candle's gleam. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...YUCCAS ON A JUNE NIGHT by MARCUS Z. LYTLE YUCCAS by MARY ELIZABETH PEARCE YUCCA IN THE MOONLIGHT by GLENN WARD DRESBACH YUCCA FLOWERS by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD TO THE PLIOCENE SKULL by FRANCIS BRET HARTE ON PASSING THE NEW MENIN GATE by SIEGFRIED SASSOON |
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