The next is a poem I absolutely love. It is called Celandine and it is by Edward Thomas. I first came across it when I was doing my A Levels two years ago at college, in my English Literature class. I had to analyse it so much, its a beautiful poem =) In the first year of uni I took a poetry course and I did a reading of this in front of the whole lecture theatre. I was shaking lol but it went well thank God!. Anyway, enjoy!
Celandine
Thinking of her had saddened me at first,
Until I saw the sun on the celandines lie
Redoubled, and she stood up like a flame,
A living thing, not what before I nursed,
The shadow I was growing to love almost,
The phantom, not the creature with bright eye
That I had thought never to see, once lost.
She found the celandines of February
Always before us all. Her nature and name
Were like those flowers, and now immediately
For a short swift eternity back she came,
Beautiful, happy, simply as when she wore
Her brightest bloom among the winter hues
Of all the world; and I was happy too,
Seeing the blossoms and the maiden who
Had seen them with me Februarys before,
Bending to them as in and out she trod
And laughed, with locks sweeping the mossy sod.
But this was a dream: the flowers were not true,
Until I stooped to pluck from the grass there,
One of five petals and I smelt the juice
Which made me sigh, remembering she was no more,
Gone like a never perfectly recalled air.
Isn't it just lovely? The power of memory, the suttle hints of a strong love, the tinge of sadness in the air…the beauty of nature and femininity.. and so much more.
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