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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TWO GARDENIAS, by BEULAH JACKSON CHARMLEY First Line: These flowers are alabaster censers Last Line: "I believe in you!" Subject(s): Gardenias | |||
These flowers are alabaster censers swung gayly from the hands of small twin slave boys, and their burning is redolent of tropic magic. These blossoms are a pair of dancers, she in cool white taffeta with green sandals, he in a snowy satin blouse with emerald trousers: as they pirouette, how stately they are! These two gardenias are a solo and its accompaniment -- the piping of a flute to the arpeggio of a harp, a harmony which sings: "I love you; I believe in you!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPRING PLOWING by BEULAH JACKSON CHARMLEY TO A SILVER BIRCH by BEULAH JACKSON CHARMLEY THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE TO ELIZABETH, COUNTESS OF RUTLAND by BEN JONSON SONNET: 14. ON THE RELIGIOUS MEMORY OF CATHERINE THOMASON by JOHN MILTON A BOY'S MOTHER by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY GIRL TO SOLDIER ON LEAVE by ISAAC ROSENBERG TO A SNOWFLAKE by FRANCIS THOMPSON |
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