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Quotes from Venus Invisible and Other Poems — Nathalia Crane

1913–1998 United States

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The world is growing gentle,
But few know what she owes
To the understanding lily
And the judgment of the rose.

Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)

The rose has told In one simplicity.
That never life
Relinquishes a bloom
But to bestow
An ancient confidence.

Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)

Great is the rose
That challenges the crypt,
And quotes milleniums
Against the grave.

Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)

A single-motored miracle, a lead mine on each flank;
Below a shadow swept and awed the hundred-fathom bank.

Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)

He found the harem filled with rocking maids
Surrendered to the orgies of the sob.

Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)

Great is the rose
Infected by the tomb,
Yet burgeoning
Indifferent to death.

Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)

The gods released a vision on a world forespent and dull;
They sent it as a challenge by the sea hawk and the gull. It roused the Norman eagerness, the Albion cliffs turned red:
"You fly the wings of logic — can you fly the wings of lead?

Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)

Treating the sword blade the same as the staff,
Turning the chariot wheel into chaff.
Toppling a pillar and nudging a wall,
Building a sand pile to counter each fall.
Yielding to nothing — not even the rose,
The dust has its reasons wherever it goes.

Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)

Oh, we have had great lovers that we followed to the pyre;
Our boasts out-do the Sabine girls—the Mosque of St. Sophia.
And we are very sure of ours, for when a city falls,
They seize us and they love us and they hurl us from the walls.

Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)

Said the tiger to the lily,
Said the viper to the rose,
Let us marry so our children
May attain the double pose. With a feline half a flower —
With the attar in the asp
We could institute a slaughter
That would make a planet gasp.

Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nathalia Crane (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.