Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare; And left the flushed … - Francis Thompson

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Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare;
And left the flushed print in a poppy there:
Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came,
And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame.

Francis Thompson

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Francis Joseph Thompson (December 18, 1859 – November 13, 1907) was an English poet and Catholic mystic.

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Thomas Moore Alfred Tennyson John Keats William Butler Yeats George William Russell

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Their scent survives their close:
But the rose's scent is bitterness
To him that loved the rose.

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare; And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came, And the fanning wind p… - Francis Thompson

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