Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by THOMAS WALSH


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CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by                    
First Line: Shaggy-headed urchins from the gardens of japan
Last Line: Doom of blast and frost and snowdrift on the summer's throne!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers


SHAGGY-HEADED urchins from the gardens of Japan
Now are down our autumn pathways in a rough-and-tumble playing,—
Motley little rioters with caps and brooms and banners swaying
On the blustery weirs and hills, a ragamuffin clan!

Woe unto the palaces of summer sacked and blown!
Not a thicket, lane or highway but their scattered spoils are twining!
Goths are at our trellised porches—through our gardens comets signing
Doom of blast and frost and snowdrift on the summer's throne!





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