Whence is yonder flower so strangely bright? Would the suns… - Dora Read Goodale

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Whence is yonder flower so strangely bright?
Would the sunset's last reflected shine
Flame so red from that dead flush of light?
Dark with passion is its lifted line,
Hot, alive, amid the falling night.

Dora Read Goodale

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About Dora Read Goodale

Dora Read Goodale (1866 – 1915) was an American poet along with her sister of Elaine Goodale Eastman. The sisters published their first poetry as children still living at home, and were included in Edmund Clarence Stedman's classic An American Anthology (1900).

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All the woodland path is broken By warm tints along the way, And the low and sunny slope Is alive with sudden hope
When there comes the silent token Of an April day,— Blue hepatica!

The Autumn wood the aster knows, The empty nest, the wind that grieves,
The sunlight breaking thro' the shade,
The squirrel chattering overhead,
The timid rabbits lighter tread
Among the rustling leaves.

And in the woods a fragrance rare
Of wild azaleas fills the air,
And richly tangled overhead
We see their blossoms sweet and red.

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