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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPIRITS OF SUMMER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poet's Biography First Line: Three creatures of the summer are to me Last Line: Three summer creatures good to know and love. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Memory; Soul; Summer | |||
THREE creatures of the summer are to me Of spirit import. First, the milkweed dun, Diaphanous, most insubstantial wight Of plantkind -- satin seeds in silken sheaths The winter long, a memory, not a flower That reckons bloom and fragrance as its due. Then the white birch, a ghost amongst its mates In the forest, glimmering-boled and phantom-tall, Crowned with a largess of most glossy leaves. And last, the thrush, wood-hid, aloof and lone, A disembodied voice, a phantasy, That shapes the plastic soul to higher things. Three summer creatures good to know and love. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ADVANCE OF SUMMER by MARY KINZIE THE SUMMER IMAGE by LEONIE ADAMS CANOEBIAL BLISS by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY THE END OF SUMMER by HENRY MEADE BLAND THE FARMER'S BOY: SUMMER by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD SONNET: 14. APPROACH OF SUMMER by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES JULY IN WASHINGTON by ROBERT LOWELL ODE TO THE END OF SUMMER by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY BLACK SHEEP by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON |
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