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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO DEMETER, by MAYBURY FLEMING First Line: Thou ever young! Persephone but gazes Last Line: The heart-knot and the ruth. | |||
THOU ever young! Persephone but gazes Upon thy face, and shows thee back thine own; And every flock that on thy hillsides grazes, And every breeze from thy fair rivers blown, And all the nestlings from thy branches flown, Are eloquent in thy praises, Demeter, mother of truth. Thy seasons of grief, thy winters white with snowing, More lovely make thy face, adorn thy head, Add beauty to thy sweet eyes, ever glowing With love and strength and godhead; and thy tread Sweetens the earth; and all the gods are dead But thee, -- thee only, strowing Ever the land with youth. And all the dead gods are in thee united, Woman and girl and lover and friend and queen; And this tame, time-worn world is full requited For that the Christ has cost us, and the teen Bred of swift time. And thy kissed palms between -- Thy dear kissed hands -- are righted The heart-knot and the ruth. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WHAT THOUGH THE GREEN LEAF GROW? by MAYBURY FLEMING QUATORZAINS: 5. TO NIGHT by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES SONG TO THE MEN OF ENGLAND by THOMAS CAMPBELL VERSES SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY ALEXANDER SELKIRK by WILLIAM COWPER THE ANGELUS; HEARD AT THE MISSION DOLORES IN SAN FRANCISCO, 1868 by FRANCIS BRET HARTE BERNARDO DEL CARPIO by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS SONNET TO A NEGRO IN HARLEM by HELENE JOHNSON TO THE ROSE UPON THE ROOD OF TIME by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS INVITATION TO A PAINTER: 2 by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM |
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