Spring Dawn
He wore a coat With gold and red maple leaves. He was girt with the two swords. He carried a peony lantern.
When I awoke. There was only the blue shadow of the plum-tree Upon the shoji.
Amy Lowell
He wore a coat With gold and red maple leaves. He was girt with the two swords. He carried a peony lantern.
When I awoke. There was only the blue shadow of the plum-tree Upon the shoji.
Amy Lowell’s “Spring Dawn” feels like the memory of a dream slipping away. In the first part, the speaker describes a man dressed in a coat patterned with gold and red maple leaves, wearing two swords and carrying a peony lantern.
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