| Poems by Women |
UNGUARDED
Ada Foster-Murray [1857-1936]
The Mistress of the Roses
Is haply far away,
And
through her garden closes
What strange intruders stray.
See on its rustic spindles
The sundrop's amber fire!
And the goldenrod
enkindles
The embers on its spire.
The dodder's shining tangle
From the meadow brook steals in,
Where in
this shadowed angle
The pale lace-makers spin.
Here's Black-Eyed Susan weeping
Into exotic air,
And Bouncing Bet comes
creeping
Back to her old parterre.
Now in this pleasant weather -
So sweetly reconciled -
They dwell and
dream together,
The kin of court and wild.
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.
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