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| Poems by Women |
OF JOAN'S YOUTH
I would unto my fair restore
A simple thing:
The flushing cheek she had
before!
Out-velveting
No more, no more,
On our sad shore,
The
carmine grape, the moth's auroral wing.
Ah, say how winds in flooding grass
Unmoor the rose;
Or guileful ways
the salmon pass
To sea, disclose;
For so, alas,
With Love,
alas,
With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes.
Louise Imogen Guiney [1861-1920]
From: Stevenson, Burton Egbert.
The Home Book of Verse.
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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) |
