Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PIPPA AND HER FLOWERS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE


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PIPPA AND HER FLOWERS, by                    
First Line: Her flowers? The martagon flame-lily glowing
Last Line: Shames into silence death's despairful creed.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Girls; Happiness; Heart's-ease (flower); Lilies; Dead, The; Joy; Delight


HER flowers? The martagon flame-lily glowing,
And heartsease, dreaming happiness alway,—
The Trinity-of-Pippa, she and they!
Dawn! and the heartsease in the valley blowing,
And gladness in a girl's young soul o'erflowing:
Sings she a welcome to her Holiday,
Teases and tends her lily, laughing gay,—
Then up and out her eager feet are going.

Think, friend of mine, that little figure bending
To pluck the heartsease for her lily lonely,
That each may love the other at day's ending,
Shall live when you and I are shadows only;
The childlike kindness in that simple deed
Shames into silence Death's despairful creed.





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