Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MY LADY ANEMONE, by JOHN JARVIS HOLDEN


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MY LADY ANEMONE, by                    
First Line: Beneath soft snows harsh winter lingering
Last Line: Beneath soft snows.
Subject(s): Anemone; Plants; Planting; Planters


BENEATH soft snows harsh winter lingering
Takes stand, betimes, against th' advancing spring
To find itself betrayed before its flight —
Within their midst that daintiest eremite,
Th' anemone, dear April's solacing.

Rare this, but rarer note doth nature ring
When silvery locks, time's counterfeits, soft cling
About a visage pink with vernal light
Beneath soft snows!

What lovelier fancy can she set a-wing?
Here rifted age holds youth in th' opening;
Here wisdom's hoary poll, in sweet despite,
Is set to crown a face of pure delight —
The wind-flower face I all too faintly sing
Beneath soft snows.





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