Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ANOTHER GRIEVING FOREST ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poet's Biography First Line: The blood of petals blown adorns the ground Last Line: With nodding blue, lament the lonely trust. Subject(s): Forests; Memory; Trees; Woods | ||||||||
The blood of petals blown adorns the ground; The ravishment of roses has begun; A rivulet of crimson fills a mound; Another grieving forest hides the sun: Possession sated, gone without a sound, The wind with ghosts of bodies must have run; Not even memory can heal the wound, Nor melody give reeds a life undone: The evergreens enfold the shrine; and proud, Bold cypresses themselves embalm their lust; The shadows myrtles bow with hold the shroud, And agony of cedars lay the dust: Gray laurels, now beheaded, once endowed With nodding blue, lament the lonely trust. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE PRINCESS WAKES IN THE WOOD by RANDALL JARRELL CHAMBER MUSIC: 20 by JAMES JOYCE ADVICE TO A FOREST by MAXWELL BODENHEIM A SOUTH CAROLINA FOREST by AMY LOWELL JOY IN THE WOODS by CLAUDE MCKAY IN BLACKWATER WOODS by MARY OLIVER THE PLACE I WANT TO GET BACK TO by MARY OLIVER FESTOONS OF FISHES by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG PEEWEE by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG ..... AND WHITE THE WHITE INVOKES by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG |
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