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Flower Pieces and other poems

By William Allingham: With two designs by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Allingham, William (1824-1889)
  
[dedication]

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FLOWER PIECES.
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FLOWERS AND MONTHS.
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FLOWERS AND POETS.
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DAY AND NIGHT SONGS.
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BALLADS, Etc.
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TRANSLATED OR ADAPTED.

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WALLFLOWER.

This dark-red Wallflower seemeth well to me
Dan Chaucer's emblem meetest for to be:
So rich it is, yet sturdy in its hue;
So sweet in scent, yet very wholesome too;
So freshly thriving in a homely place,
Yet in the rarest knots a welcome grace.
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