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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FRUITIONLESS, by INA DONNA COOLBRITH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At! Little flower, up-springing, azure-eyed Last Line: And, sighing, dream my useless life away. | |||
AH! little flower, upspringing, azure-eyed, The meadow-brook beside, Dropping delicious balms Into the tender palms Of lover-winds, that woo with light caress, In still contentedness, Living and blooming thy brief summer-day: -- So, wiser far than I, That only dream and sigh, And, sighing, dream my listless life away. Ah! sweetheart birds, a-building your wee house In the broad-leaved boughs, Pausing with merry trill To praise each other's skill, And nod your pretty heads with pretty pride; Serenely satisfied To trill and twitter love's sweet roundelay: -- So, happier than I, That, lonely, dream and sigh, And, sighing, dream my lonely life away. Brown-bodied bees, that scent with nostrils fine The odorous blossom-wine, Sipping, with heads half thrust Into the pollen dust Of rose and hyacinth and daffodil, To hive, in amber cell, A honey feasting for the winter-day: -- So, better far than I, Self-wrapt, that dream and sigh, And, sighing, dream my useless life away. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A MEMORY by INA DONNA COOLBRITH CALIFORNIA by INA DONNA COOLBRITH COPA DE ORO (CALIFORNIA POPPY) by INA DONNA COOLBRITH FROM RUSSIAN HILL by INA DONNA COOLBRITH LONGING by INA DONNA COOLBRITH OWNERSHIP by INA DONNA COOLBRITH SAN FRANCISCO; APRIL 18, 1906 by INA DONNA COOLBRITH THE CAPTIVE OF THE WHITE CITY by INA DONNA COOLBRITH WITH THE CARAVAN by INA DONNA COOLBRITH WITHHELD by INA DONNA COOLBRITH |
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