Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BUTTERFLIES, by SAINT-PAUL ROUX Poet's Biography First Line: Time tells the rosary of the sun Last Line: Time tells the rosary of the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Paul Pierre; Roux, P0l Subject(s): Angels; Butterflies; Colors; Insects; Spring; Bugs | ||||||||
Time tells the rosary of the sun. In these hours colored like the treasure of the church, angel-cheeks soon to be devoured smile on the green branches of candelabra where dry-grass wags are calling. By the white bands of the light lowlands, where one slope is an idyll of Theocritus, one a bucolic of Virgil, come and go tunicked pilgrims, wreathed with a diadem that stubborn springs again, despite the puff of cloth whereby the peremptory hand, every twenty paces, effaces it. In an orchard milord Scarecrow over a desk is beating time to the cherry-notes played on a fife by a shepherd whose flock bleats under a lively flight of swallows knitting space. Meanwhile, before his threshold honeysuckle-decked, an old man come before his time sharpens the annual scythe, as if he were polishing a groundswell with the north wind. Time tells the rosary of the sun. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EXHAUSTED BUG; FOR MY FATHER by ROBERT BLY PLASTIC BEATITUDE by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR BEETLE LIGHT; FOR DANIEL HILLEN by MADELINE DEFREES CLEMATIS MONTANA by MADELINE DEFREES THOMAS MERTON AND THE WINTER MARSH by NORMAN DUBIE ON THE DAY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM BY TITUS by GEORGE GORDON BYRON |
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