Poems (Dudley)/Lilies

by Marion Vienna Churchill Dudley

For works with similar titles, see Lilies.

LILIES.

FIVE beautiful lilies,—two in the charm Of perfected and glorious bloom,And three in the exquisite mystery Of a budded, immaculate gloom,—

Have come to me, fragrant with kindly regard, Through a hand that was daintily small,With pink in its tips and a prayer in its pose;— Fitting vase for the lily stem tall!

I marked its uplifting,—the curve of the arm Was the curve of a sculptor's delight;—The dimple of joint and the fingers' light clasp On the fragrance embodied in white.

O tropical lily buds! Exquisite dust, So peerlessly blooming for me,I banish my sadness and bury my care And I bloom again—bloom unto thee!