summer
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SummerAuthor(s): David MortonSource: Poetry, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Jul., 1920), p. 196Published by: Poetry FoundationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20572695 .
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POETRY: A Magazine of Verse
TWO SONNETS
SUMMER
From what lost centuries that were sweet before, Comes this long wave of Summer, bursting white
In shivered apple-blossoms on the shore That is our homeland for a day and night!
A wide, hushed spirit floats above the foam, A sweetness that was ancient flower and face,
When wine-red poppies stained the walls of Rome, And daisies starred those summer fields of Thrace.
Something survives and haunts the leafy shade, Some fragrance that was petals once, and lips,
And whispered, brief avowals that they made Borne hither, now, in vague, invisible ships,
Whose weightless cargoes, poured upon the air, Are flowers forgot, and faces that were fair.
SYMBOLS
Beautiful words, like butterflies, blow by, With what swift colors on their fragile wings!
Some that are less articulate than a sigh,
Some that were names of ancient, lovely things. What delicate careerings of escape,
When they would pass beyond the baffled reach, To leave a haunting shadow and a shape,
Eluding still the careful traps of speech.
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