The Poetry of Ellin Anderson

WHITE TREE AT TWILIGHT

Ellin Anderson

Shadowed by a sunless wood
Where loveliness should never grow,
Her branches spilled their starry foam
Like unexpected fall of snow.
A white spire singing of maidenhood
Beside a dead or dying tree
Shed quicksilver blossoms that trapped the light,
Kindling the thicket beneath the dome
Of the slow-descending, star-heavy night —
And hope soared up like a litany.
 

© 2008 by Ellin Anderson. All rights reserved.
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Three Bears
Song of the Lily
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The Spinner
Song for the Harp
The Little Heath-Rose
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Song-Sparrow
  Grand Bois du Nord
The Owl
Moth Summer
Verticordia
The Little God of Joy
Pear-Petals
Photographing the Moon
A Rabbit
Rose, Do You Know
The Two Pining Bachelors
Persephone
The Harvest Chorus
Avalon
The Maple Mask
Ghost Cardinal

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