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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SACRED FRUIT, by HAZEL MCGEE BOWMAN First Line: A secret garden blossoms where this hour Last Line: And gentle forest folk, or a little child! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening | |||
A secret garden blossoms where this hour Finds unafraid the shy and feral deer, Moveless, beside a felspar-stippled mere Where green and aromatic forests tower Above a coigned and moon-enchanted bower. And there the fruit is sweet and honey-clear; And there he may not feed, however near The succulent leaf, the cymed and nectared flower. For this the region of divine unrest; Of nameless dreams, earth-bound and heaven-born, And none dare cross those mystic margents lest He find naught but the crucifixion thorn, Save these: the high and pure of heart, the wild And gentle forest folk, or a little child! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NOVEMBER GARDEN: AN ELEGY by ANDREW HUDGINS AN ENGLISH GARDEN IN AUSTRIA (SEEN AFTER DER ROSENKAVALIER) by RANDALL JARRELL ACROSS THE BROWN RIVER by GALWAY KINNELL A DESERTED GARDEN by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS NOT THE SWEET CICELY OF GERARDES HERBALL by MARGARET AVISON AN OLD GARDEN by HERBERT BASHFORD THE SEEKERS by HAZEL MCGEE BOWMAN HYBRIDS OF WAR: A MORALITY POEM: 2. CAMBODIA by KAREN SWENSON |
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