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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
YUCCAS, by DONALD BAIN First Line: June in new mexico, - a desert land Last Line: The living splendor of a poet's dream. Subject(s): New Mexico; Yucca Plants | |||
June in New Mexico, -- a desert land, Basking beneath a torrid, cloudless sky; Seas of dun-colored, torpid, desert sand, Reaching horizons cupped in purple dye. The gray-green mounds, -- waves in arrested motion, Innumerable appear, as fallen on sleep; A soundless, motionless and molten ocean, Where, in the silence, deep calls unto deep. Upon the dormant waves, with sails outspread, Are argosies of ivory-winged feluccas, Burdened with Beauty, on the earth to shed The cream-white glory of Regina Yuccas. Ethereal visitants to earth they seem, -- The living splendor of a Poet's dream. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...YUCCAS by MARY ELIZABETH PEARCE YUCCA IN THE MOONLIGHT by GLENN WARD DRESBACH YUCCA FLOWERS by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD THE DELICACIES by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS A CONTEMPLATION UPON FLOWERS by HENRY KING (1592-1669) SONNET: 9 by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL |
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