Flower Pieces and other poems By William Allingham: With two designs by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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SWEETBRIAR.
Leigh Hunt, the bloom I name for thineIs pretty, pointed Eglantine:
Flusht with the gentlest garden hue,
Yet with a wilding freshness too;
With fragrant breath in fine flower-lips,
And fragrance to green finger-tips;
And all its sweetness sweeter yet,
With dews or showery droppings wet.
For not in blossom books alone
Thy Poetry and Love are shown;
And tearful trials of this earth
But draw their richest essence forth.
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