Re: REF: Iris Poetry
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] REF: Iris Poetry
- From: G* S*
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 21:02:50 -0700
John Jones wrote:
>
> Anyone know of a source of iris poetry?
IRIS
FLEUR DE LUCE
Flower of light! Who gave thee first that name.
Saw clear thy flower soul through purple prism bars.
Lifting thy threefold standard to the stars,
Poised, perfect, still,-like an arrested flame,
A carven prayer all luminous, thou art
Part human flower and winged Archangel part.
Flower of light! Fair prism that disparts
But to remake the Sun's too sovereign light,
Tempering his blinding, incandescent white
In Iris colours to our human sight,
Filling with uncommunicable joys our heart;
As the arched splendours of God's rainbow, blent,
Make the white glory of His firmament.
Flower of light! Emblem of hope, that calls,
With lifted arms to heaven, but still lets down
The curved beauties of thy triple gown
To Earth: as we too, reaching to a crown
Hold fast to human love, so thy soft velvet falls,
Emblem of Faith and Hope and Charity
That, rooted still in earth, still clasps Eternity.
Flower of light! in thine arched petals dwells
The curve that yet no painter ever drew,
The secret beauty of the Heart of things;
That Hogarth sought and Leonardo knew
Beyond their mortal reach :-like distant bells
Heard on awaking, dream imaginings
Clasped at and gone, that ever must elude
Man's dear desire and mock his pencil crude.
Flower of light! Who knows if fables old
First gave Olympus' messenger thy name
O gave thee hers ;-but this I know-there came
Down the arched bow in multicoloured flame,
To star our earth with purple and with gold
Thy beauty ;-for a breath of Heaven yet clings
About thy robes, and thy translucent stillness brings
Faint Seraph songs, half heard, and winnowings of wings.
W. H. W. BLISS.
"Presented on behalf of the A. I. S. from my brother and myself," A. J.
Bliss.
May 11, 1922.
Gerry
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g*@mediaone.net
Gerry Snyder, AIS Symposium Chair, Region 15 RVP
Member San Fernando Valley, Southern California Iris Societies
in warm, winterless Los Angeles--USDA 9b-ish, Sunset 18-19
my work: helping generate data for: http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/
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