Dream-Flowers
Dreamed between 1953 & '65 by Kathleen Raine
In last night's dream who put into my hand Two sprigs of verbena, culled from what sweet tree? Your mother, it was told me, though I could not see her: But to what daughter and by what mother, By what Demeter to what Persephone given? Was the hand mine that took those flowers Given from one world to another? There is a speech by none in this life spoken,
Flowers of the earth grow out of the mystery;
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SOURCE: Collected Poems by Kathleen Raine, 2001, p122.
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