Classic and Contemporary Poetry
O SWEET ANEMONES!, by JESSIE E. SAMPTER Poet's Biography First Line: O sweet anemones on sharon's plain Last Line: Who still remembers, lives, refreshed with tears. Subject(s): God; Israel; Jews; Zionism; Judaism | ||||||||
O SWEET anemones on Sharon's plain, Light dancing seraphim of sun and rain, Was he not one of us, was he not ours? And yet he saved not us, O crimson flowers! As stars that bloom in heaven, full-bloom and still, As native stags that leap from hill to hill, As you, dear blossom-stars, on native plains, So planted here, with God, our home remains. I, too, would perish here, where he has died, But felled by horse and spear, not crucified; I, man of peace, would pour, O Rock of God, My freedom or my blood on Zion's sod. When pagans sweep thy fields with withering blast, My heart is sanctified to death at last; Its taste is honey-sweet within my mouth, For we that drink with God can dread no drouth. O sweet anemones on Sharon's plain, A spring shall come for us, to bloom again, To God a day, to us a thousand years, Who still remembers, lives, refreshed with tears. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD A LITTLE HISTORY by DAVID LEHMAN FOR I WILL CONSIDER YOUR DOG MOLLY by DAVID LEHMAN JEWISH GRAVEYARDS, ITALY by PHILIP LEVINE NATIONAL THOUGHTS by YEHUDA AMICHAI SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 2. ANGEL ... by MARVIN BELL ADON OLAM by JESSIE E. SAMPTER |
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