If my soul were a flower It would fade. If my soul were a leaf It would fall. If my soul were a splendor of painted skies It would melt into night. But because it contains the flower, the leaf, the sky My soul is greater than these, And in it they abide, Unfading, unfalling, unmelting. And there is an ampler soul, to which mine Is a flower that not only fades not But grows eternally, A leaf that not only falls not But spreads to wider joy, A sky that not only melts not But flames to deeper glory. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO TIME by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE GIFT TO SING by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON THE CORNUCOPIA OF RED AND GREEN COMFITS by AMY LOWELL MOTHER JUNKIE by CLARENCE MAJOR DOMESDAY BOOK: AT FAIRBANKS by EDGAR LEE MASTERS GEORGE MOORE by MARIANNE MOORE OF ANY OLD MAN by ISAAC ROSENBERG |