Poem of the week: THE LITTLE FLOWERS OF LOVE AND WONDER by THEODORE DREISER

18 August, 2010

THE little flowers of love and wonder

That grow in the dark places
And between the giant rocks of chance
And the coarse winds of space.
 
The little flowers of love and wonder
That raise their heads
Beneth the dread rains
And against the chill frosts;
That peep and dream
In flaws of light
And amid the still grey places
And stony ways.
 
The Little flowers of love and wonder
That peep and dream,
And quickly die
 
The Little flowers of love and wonder.
 
 
 
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency.