Poetry » Claude McKay http://poetry.t2i.info Library of Poetry, poets and poems Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:59:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 The Easter Flower http://poetry.t2i.info/claude-mckay/the-easter-flower.html http://poetry.t2i.info/claude-mckay/the-easter-flower.html#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:56:19 +0000 mihella http://poetry.t2i.info/claude-mckay/the-easter-flower.html Far from this foreign Easter damp and chilly
My soul steals to a pear-shaped plot of ground,
Where gleamed the lilac-tinted Easter lily
Soft-scented in the air for yards around;

Alone, without a hint of guardian leaf!
Just like a fragile bell of silver rime,
It burst the tomb for freedom sweet and brief
In the young pregnant year at Eastertime;

And many thought it was a sacred sign,
And some called it the resurrection flower;
And I, a pagan, worshiped at its shrine,
Yielding my heart unto its perfumed power.

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