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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
YUCCA, by MARIE TODD First Line: Yucca, yucca, burning white Last Line: Holding high your candle's gleam. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Yucca Plants | |||
Yucca, yucca, burning white, Desert candle, limpid light, Keep your waxen flame aglow Where the sage and grease-wood grow. Keep your taper burning bright Like a faithful acolyte. Does your candle waft a prayer, Or are you just waiting there? Yucca moths will seek your light Shining bravely through the night. Pay no heed to maunderings; Let them singe their ardent wings. Vestal Virgin of the waste, In your temple safe incased, Be contented just to dream, Holding high your candle's gleam. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...YUCCAS ON A JUNE NIGHT by MARCUS Z. LYTLE YUCCAS by MARY ELIZABETH PEARCE YUCCA IN THE MOONLIGHT by GLENN WARD DRESBACH |
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