The Jungle Flower
Ah, the cool silence of the shaded hours, The scent and colour of the jungle flowers! Thou art one of the jungle flowers, strange and fierce and fair, Palest amber, perfect lines, and scented with champa flower. Lie back and frame thy face in the gloom of thy loosened hair; Sweet thou art and loved - ay, loved - for an hour. But thought flies far, ah, far, to another breast, Whose whiteness breaks to the rose of a twin pink flower, Where wind the azure veins that my lips caressed When Fate was gentle to me for a too-brief hour. There is my spirit's home and my soul's abode, The rest are only inns on the traveller's road.
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"Ah, the cool silence of the shaded hours,..."
Exploring the themes of classic, Laurence Hope (Adela Florence Cory Nicolson) delivers a powerful performance in "The Jungle Flower"... ### Why We Love This Line At Linespedia, we believe that poetry is the ultimate sanctuary for the soul...