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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SPROUTING BOARD, by AL-ISRA'ILI First Line: Your cheeks were oh how fair Last Line: Reveals its wick is black. | |||
Your cheeks were oh how fair, How full of glowing grace Until that sprouted there, Your beauty to deface. And then your cheeks became A candle that, alack Extinguishing its flame, Reveals its wick is black. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LONE DOG by IRENE RUTHERFORD MCLEOD FRAGMENTS OF A POEM ON THE EXCELLENCE OF CHRISTIANITY by JAMES HAY BEATTIE ETHINTHUS, QUEEN OF WATERS by WILLIAM BLAKE THE TAPESTRY by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES THE DEATH OF SCHILLER by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT THE HERB-LEECH by JOSEPH CAMPBELL |
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