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THE PASSION-FLOWER
My love gave me a passion-flower.
I nursed it well - so brief its
hour!
My eyelids ache, my throat is dry:
He told me that it would not
die.
My love and I are one, and yet
Full oft my cheeks with tears are wet
-
So sweet the night is and the bower!
My love gave me a
passion-flower.
So sweet! Hold fast my hands. Can God
Make all this joy revert
to sod,
And leave to me but this for dower -
My love gave me a
passion-flower.
Note: this is not Margaret Fuller Ossoli
From: Stevenson, Burton Egbert.
The Home Book of Verse.
This poet:
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This collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis.
Collection © 1999-2002 Jone Johnson Lewis.
Citing poems from these pages:
| Author. "Poem Title." Women's History: Poems by Women. Jone Johnson Lewis, editor. URL: (date of logon) |
