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The Flowers
Day after day,
At spring's return,
I watch my flowers, how they burn
Their lives away.
At spring's return,
I watch my flowers, how they burn
Their lives away.
The candle crocus
And daffodil gold
Drink fire of the sunshine—
Quickly cold.
And the proud tulip—
How red he glows!—
Is quenched ere summer
Can kindle the rose.
Purple as the innermost
Core of a sinking flame,
Deep in the leaves the violets smoulder
To the dust whence they came.
Day after day
At spring's return,
I watch my flowers, how they burn
Their lives away,
Day after day ...
Fiction
Poetry
- A Little Memory
- Anniversaries
- Books And Thoughts
- By the Fire
- Complaint of a Poet Manque
- Crapulous Impression
- Darkness
- Doors Of The Temple
- In Uncertainty to a Lady
- Inspiration
- Italy
- L'Après-Midi D'un Faune
- Love Song
- Minoan Porcelain
- On the Bus
- Out of the Window
- Panic
- Poem
- Points and Lines
- Private Property
- Return from Business
- Revelation
- Scenes of the Mind
- Social Amenities
- Song of the Populars
- Stanzas
- Summer Stillness
- The Alien
- The Decameron
- The Defeat of Youth
- The Elms
- The Flowers
- The Life Theoretic
- The Louse-Hunters
- The Reef
- Topiary
- Valedictory
- Vision
- Waking
- Winter Dream
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