The Poison Flower

The Wednesdayverse will have to use extra-pearly moisturizer on that furrow. The Wednesdayverse wonders why "The Poison Flower" is nowhere to be found online and burps something up accordingly.

It's true (in terms of Google-truth): Mary Coleridge's "The Poison Flower" is suspiciously absent from the Internet, which these days is a lot like saying the Universe. It is our duty as net-petizens to spackle these gaps where we may.

The Poison Flower

The poison flower that in my garden grew
Killed all the other flowers beside.
They withered off and died,
Because their fiery foe sucked up the dew.

When the sun shone, the poison flower breathed cold
And spread a chilly mist of dull disgrace.
They could not see his face,
Roses and lilies languished and grew old.

Wherefore I tore that flower up by the root,
And flung it on the rubbish heap to fade
Amid the havoc that itself had made.
I did not leave one shoot.

Fair is my garden as it once was fair.
Lilies and roses reign.
They drink the dew; they see the sun again;
But I rejoice no longer, walking there.

-- Mary Coleridge

I was looking for this one online so I wouldn't have to keep the book open for reference -- I'm doing my last critical analysis paper for Poetry class on it. It was this or Margaret Atwood's "Siren Song" or "Spring and Fall" by Gerard Manley Hopkins. (Hopkins would have been the hands-down winner, except I chose "God's Grandeur" by him from the mid-term selection and writing on the same poet twice seems dodgy.)

Comments

[l.h]

im comparing a poison flower to william blakes "poison tree" any thoughts?

[jamie cook]

I am comparing the ways in which the poems the poison flower and the poem a poison tree portray the destructive nature of human relationships any thoughts?

[vikikennedy]

im doing that aswell i need help!!

[Charlotte]

There's nothing whatsoever on the internet about this poem.
I having trouble working out the metaphorical object that she's discussing. There are just too many variables.
Any help would be gladly appreciated.

[Sophy-Mae]

Im doing a school essay on poetry analysis and im using this poem, Any ideas on what to write?