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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TULIPS, by VESTA C. WESTFALL
First Line: I know a garden where gay tulips grow
Last Line: That dawn may find them of herself, a part.
Subject(s): Colors; Gardens & Gardening; Tulips
First Line: I know a garden where gay tulips grow
Last Line: That dawn may find them of herself, a part.
Subject(s): Colors; Gardens & Gardening; Tulips
I know a garden where gay tulips grow
As stately as fine ladies, slim and tall
In flaunting colors; row upon dancing row
Slow bending to the romping breeze and all.
Like dames who danced in the dim long ago
To lively minuet, they nod and sway,
And each one holds aloft a painted bowl
That she may catch a sunbeam, gone astray
To weave into her dress of brilliant hue
And prison in this way, raindrops of gold
With tiny precious pearls of sparkling dew
To use as trimming for her finery, and fold
At night into her glowing secret heart
That dawn may find them of herself, a part.
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