Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CLOUD BASKETS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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First Line: Clouds that hide the sun with showers
Last Line: Just the flowers I love the best.
Subject(s): Clouds; Flowers


Clouds that hide the sun with showers
Are wet baskets full of flowers.

One is packed with poppies bright;
One with lilies inward white.

One, that takes a day to pass,
Bulges out with blades of grass.

One's a mass of roses red;
One, a crowded pansy-bed.

Yonder cloud, so sullen dull,
Of golden buttercups is full.

Its neighbor cloud, an ashen gray,
Glows within with daisies gay.

Not a cloud whose rain we rue
But is crammed with flowers too.

So I know the darkest cloud,
Creeping gloomy as a shroud,

Brings to me, all unnconfessed,
Just the flowers I love the best.




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