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Maurine and Other Poems

By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

2021-02-13 16:58:12

I sat and sewed, and sang some tender tune, Oh, beauteous was that morn in early June! Mellow with sunlight, and with blossoms fair: The climbing rose-tree grew about me there, And checked with shade the sunny portico Where, morns like this, I c ... Read more
I sat and sewed, and sang some tender tune, Oh, beauteous was that morn in early June! Mellow with sunlight, and with blossoms fair: The climbing rose-tree grew about me there, And checked with shade the sunny portico Where, morns like this, I came to read, or sew. I heard the gate click, and a firm, quick tread Upon the walk.  No need to turn my head; I would mistake, and doubt my own voice sounding, Before his step upon the gravel bounding. Less

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File size451.562 KB
Print pages264
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-0766106338
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850 – October 30, 1919) was an American author and poet. Her works include Poems of Passion and Solitude, which contains the lines "Laugh, and the world laughs with...

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