Flower Pieces and other poems By William Allingham: With two designs by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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X. IVY.
Green leaves, green flow'rs, green berries, gothic fret
Of woven green, from year to century,—
On ground, wall, wayside, mountain-crag, old tree,
In town or wilderness, the living net
Of Ivy richly clothes bare poverty,
Adds to the stateliest house a beauty yet,
Pathos to ruin'd arch and parapet,
With cottage, church-tower, tomb, can well agree.
Of woven green, from year to century,—
On ground, wall, wayside, mountain-crag, old tree,
In town or wilderness, the living net
Of Ivy richly clothes bare poverty,
Adds to the stateliest house a beauty yet,
Pathos to ruin'd arch and parapet,
With cottage, church-tower, tomb, can well agree.
No luck misfits thee, Ivy, great or mean,
Mirthful or solemn; right for Pluto's bower,
Bacchus's jolly garland. Now, serene,
You welcome winter, choose for time to flower
The misty month when most things crouch and cower.
Green is Youth's colour. Hail, Prince Evergreen!
Mirthful or solemn; right for Pluto's bower,
Bacchus's jolly garland. Now, serene,
You welcome winter, choose for time to flower
The misty month when most things crouch and cower.
Green is Youth's colour. Hail, Prince Evergreen!
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