"Marsh Marigolds"
Random Poetry List XCIII
Here in the water-meadows
Marsh marigolds ablaze
Brighten the elder shadows
Lost in an autumn haze.
Drunkards of sun and summer
They keep their colours clear,
Flaming among the marshes
At waning of the year.
Thicker than bee-swung clovers
They crowd the meadow-space;
Each to the mist that hovers
Lifts an undaunted face.
Time, that has stripped the sunflower,
And driven the bees away,
Hath on these golden gipsies
No power to dismay.
Marsh marigolds together
Their ragged banners lift
Against the darkening weather,
Long rains and frozen drift:
They take the lessening sunshine
Home to their hearts to keep
Against the days of darkness,
Against the time of sleep.
Nora Hopper Chesson (1871-1906)
Originally e-mailed on Wednesday, December 05, 2001 @ 10:06 AM.
Lane Core Jr. CIW P Fri. 12/05/08 07:36:17 AM
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