Edelweiss

Frank Wilmot 1881 (Collingwood) – 1942



THERE grows a white, white flower  
 By the wild Alps of romance;  
And who would reach its dainty leaves  
 Takes life and death in chance.  
 
There is a dark, dark cavern          
 Where a woman goes alone,  
Takes hope and peril in her hand  
 And fights Death on his throne.  
 
To our heart’s breathless calling  
 She comes from the cavern wild,          
Holding in her exhausted arms  
 A small, white, blossoming child.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXA XBXB XCXC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 427
Words 72
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

Frank Wilmot

Frank Leslie Thomson Wilmot, who published his work under the pseudonym Furnley Maurice, was a noted Australian poet, best known for To God: From the Warring Nations. more…

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