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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A POT OF HELIOTROPE, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG
First Line: Shake out your purple petals
Last Line: Hung in the breeze to blow.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heliotropes; Roses
First Line: Shake out your purple petals
Last Line: Hung in the breeze to blow.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heliotropes; Roses
Shake out your purple petals
Until their perfume falls
In reminiscent sweetness
On dim, low-vaulted halls,
Recalling loved old gardens—
Half-forgotten gardens—where
You hung your purple hangings
Out in the summer air.
Your lovely purple hangings
Against soft leaves of green
Bordering the rows of roses
As I have never seen
Since I walked through those old gardens
In the shadowy Long Ago
And saw your purple portieres
Hung in the breeze to blow.
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