Words from the Garden by Isobel Carlson

Words from the Garden by Isobel Carlson

Author:Isobel Carlson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783720965
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers Ltd


The Garden by

Moonlight

A black cat among roses,

Phlox, lilac-misted under a

first-quarter moon,

The sweet smells of heliotrope and

night-scented stock.

The garden is very still,

It is dazed with moonlight,

Contented with perfume,

Dreaming the opium dreams of its

folded poppies.

Firefly lights open and vanish

High as the tip buds of the golden glow

Low as the sweet alyssum flowers at my feet.

Moon-shimmer on leaves and trellises,

Moon-spikes shafting through the

snowball bush.

Only the little faces of the ladies’ delight

are alert and staring,

Only the cat, padding between the roses,

Shakes a branch and breaks the chequered

pattern

As water is broken by the falling of a leaf.

Then you come,

And you are quiet like the garden,

And white like the alyssum flowers,

And beautiful as the silent sparks of the

fireflies.

Ah, Beloved, do you see those orange lilies?

They knew my mother,

But who belonging to me will they know

When I am gone?

Amy Lowell



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