Flowers Of Ice

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Title:     Flowers Of Ice
Author: Helen Hay Whitney [More Titles by Whitney]

The lights within the ice-floes are our flowers,
Lily and daffodil and violet.
Beneath these monstrous suns that never set
Tremble soft rainbows, young as Earth's first hours,
Ancient as Time. No balm of gentle showers
Make for their growth; for them, gigantic, met
The immemorial ice and sun, to get
Such blossoms--pledge of Beauty's bravest powers.

Violet and pale grass-green, the Spring-time dies
In the soft South. To us, in this grim world,
Daring with frozen heart and tearless eyes
The North's white sanctity, Fate idly throws
These alms--a deathless Spring of ice enfurled,
And over all, far flung, the sunset rose.

[The end]
Helen Hay Whitney's poem: Flowers Of Ice

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