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When thy fair tree; fully grown;

Shall bourgeon; and grow splendid

With blossoms of its own;

And the fruit begins to gather;

But the buttercups are mown。



If I should see thy autumn;

'Twill not be close at hand;

But with a spirit vision;

From some far…distant land。

Or; perhaps; I hence may see thee

Amongst the angels stand。



I know not what of fortune

The future holds for thee;

Nor if skies fair or clouded

Wait thee in days to be;

But neither joy nor sorrow

Shall sever thee from me。



Dear child; whatever changes

Across our lives may pass;

I shall see thee still for ever;

Clearly as in a glass;

The same sweet child of fancy;

The same dear winsome lass。



Lewis Morris '1833…1907'





DAISY



Where the thistle lifts a purple crown

Six foot out of the turf;

And the harebell shakes on the windy hill …

O the breath of the distant surf! …



The hills look over on the South;

And southward dreams the sea;

And with the sea…breeze hand in hand

Came innocence and she。



Where 'mid the gorse the raspberry

Red for the gatherer springs;

Two children did we stray and talk

Wise; idle; childish things。



She listened with big…lipped surprise;

Breast…deep 'mid flower and spine:

Her skin was like a grape; whose veins

Run snow instead of wine。



She knew not those sweet words she spake;

Nor knew her own sweet way;

But there's never a bird; so sweet a song

Thronged in whose throat that day!



Oh; there were flowers in Storrington

On the turf and on the spray;

But the sweetest flower on Sussex hills

Was the Daisy…flower that day!



Her beauty smoothed earth's furrowed face!

She gave me tokens three: …

A look; a word of her winsome mouth;

And a wild raspberry。



A berry red; a guileless look;

A still word; … strings of sand!

And yet they made my wild; wild heart

Fly down to her little hand。



For standing artless as the air;

And candid as the skies;

She took the berries with her hand;

And the love with her sweet eyes。



The fairest things have fleetest end:

Their scent survives their close;

But the rose's scent is bitterness

To him that loved the rose!



She looked a little wistfully;

Then went her sunshine way: …

The sea's eye had a mist on it;

And the leaves fell from the day。



She went her unremembering way;

She went and left in me

The pang of all the partings gone;

And partings yet to be。



She left me marveling why my soul

Was sad that she was glad;

At all the sadness in the sweet;

The sweetness in the sad。



Still; still I seemed to see her; still

Look up with soft replies;

And take the berries with her hand;

And the love with her lovely eyes。



Nothing begins; and nothing ends;

That is not paid with moan;

For we are born in others' pain;

And perish in our own。



Francis Thompson '1859?…1907'





TO PETRONILLA WHO HAS PUT UP HER HAIR



Yesterday it blew alway;

Yesterday is dead;

Now forever must it stay

Coiled about your head;

Tell me Whence the great Command

Hitherward has sped。

〃Silly boy; as if I knew;〃

Petronilla said。



Nay; but I am very sure;

Since you left my side;

Something has befallen you;

You are fain to hide;

Homage has been done to you;

Innocents have died。

〃Silly boy; and what of that?〃

Petronilla cried。



Petronilla; much I fear

Scarcely have you wept

All those merry yesterdays;

Slaughtered whilst you slept;

Slain to bind that pretty crown

Closer round your head。

〃Silly boy; as if I cared;〃

Petronilla said。



Henry Howarth Bashford '1880…





THE GYPSY GIRL



Passing I saw her as she stood beside

A lonely stream between two barren wolds;

Her loose vest hung in rudely gathered folds

On her swart bosom; which in maiden pride

Pillowed a string of pearls; among her hair

Twined the light bluebell and the stone…crop gay;

And not far thence the small encampment lay;

Curling its wreathed smoke into the air。

She seemed a child of some sun…favored clime;

So still; so habited to warmth and rest;

And in my wayward musings on past time;

When my thought fills with treasured memories;

That image nearest borders on the blest

Creations of pure art that never dies。



Henry Alford '1810…1871'





FANNY

A Southern Blossom



Come and see her as she stands;

Crimson roses in her hands;

And her eyes

Are as dark as Southern night;

Yet than Southern dawn more bright;

And a soft; alluring light

In them lies。



None deny if she beseech

With that pretty; liquid speech

Of the South。

All her consonants are slurred;

And the vowels are preferred;

There's a poem in each word

From that mouth。



Even Cupid is her slave;

Of her arrows; half he gave

Her one day

In a merry; playful hour。

Dowered with these and beauty's dower;

Strong indeed her magic power;

So they say。



Venus; not to be outdone

By her generous little son;

Shaped the mouth

Very like to Cupid's bow。

Lack…a…day!  Our North can show

No such lovely flowers as grow

In the South!



Anne Reeve Aldrich '1866…1892'





SOMEBODY'S CHILD



Just a picture of Somebody's child; …

Sweet face set in golden hair;

Violet eyes; and cheeks of rose;

Rounded chin; with a dimple there;



Tender eyes where the shadows sleep;

Lit from within by a secret ray; …

Tender eyes that will shine like stars

When love and womanhood come this way:



Scarlet lips with a story to tell; …

Blessed be he who shall find it out;

Who shall learn the eyes' deep secret well;

And read the heart with never a doubt。



Then you will tremble; scarlet lips;

Then you will crimson; loveliest cheeks:

Eyes will brighten and blushes will burn

When the one true lover bends and speaks。



But she's only a child now; as you see;

Only a child in her careless grace:

When Love and Womanhood come this way

Will anything sadden the flower…like face?



Louise Chandler Moulton '1835…1908'





EMILIA



Halfway up the Hemlock valley turnpike;

In the bend of Silver Water's arm;

Where the deer come trooping down at even;

Drink the cowslip pool; and fear no harm;

Dwells Emilia;

Flower of the fields of Camlet Farm。



Sitting sewing by the western window

As the too brief mountain sunshine flies;

Hast thou seen a slender…shouldered figure

With a chestnut braid; Minerva…wise;

Round her temples;

Shadowing her gray; enchanted eyes?



When the freshets flood the Silver Water;

When the swallow flying northward braves

Sleeting rains that sweep the birchen foothills

Where the windflowers' pale plantation waves …

(Fairy gardens

Springing from the dead leaves in their graves); …



Falls forgotten; then; Emilia's needle;

Ancient ballads; fleeting through her brain;

Sing the cuckoo and the English primrose;

Outdoors calling with a quaint refrain;

And a rainbow

Seems to brighten through the gusty rain。



Forth she goes; in some old dress and faded;

Fearless of the showery shifting wind;

Kilted are her skirts to clear the mosses;

And her bright braids in a 'kerchief pinned;

Younger sister

Of the damsel…errant Rosalind。



While she helps to serve the harvest supper

In the lantern…lighted village hall;

Moonlight rises on the burning woodland;

Echoes dwindle from the distant Fall。

Hark; Emilia!

In her ear the airy voices call。



Hidden papers in the dusty garret;

Where her few and secret poems lie; …

Thither flies her heart to join her treasure;

While she serves; with absent…musing eye;

Mighty tankards

Foaming cider in the glasses high。



〃Would she mingle with her young companions!〃

Vainly do her aunts and uncles say;

Ever; from the village sports and dances;

Early missed; Emilia slips away。

Whither vanished?

With what unimagined mates to play?



Did they seek her; wandering by the water;

They should find her comrades shy and strange:

Queens and princesses; and saints and fairies;

Dimly moving in a cloud of change: …

Desdemona;

Mariana of the Moated Grange。



Up this valley to the fair and market

When young farmers from the southward ride;

Oft they linger at a sound of chanting

In the meadows by the turnpike side;

Long they listen;

Deep in fancies of a fairy bride。



Sarah N。 Cleghorn '1876…





TO A GREEK GIRL



With breath of thyme and bees that hum;

Across the years you seem to come; …

Across the years with nymph…like head;

And wind…blown brows unfilleted;

A girlish shape that slips the bud

In lines of unspoiled symmetry;

A girlish shape that stirs the blood

With pulse of Spring; Autonoe!



Where'er you pass; … where'er you go;

I hear the pebbly rillet flow;

Where'er you go; … where'er you pass;

There comes a gladness on the grass;

You bring blithe airs where'er you tread; …

Blithe airs that blow from down and s

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