Nature
Violets at Home
From Victorian Songs (1895)
Nature
I.
O happy buds of violet!
I give thee to my sweet, and she
Puts them where something sweeter yet
Must always be.
II.
White violets find whiter rest:
For fairest flowers how fair a fate!
For me remain, O fragrant breast!
Inviolate.
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MLA
Collins, Mortimer. “Violets at Home.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/collins_m/3/.
Chicago
Collins, Mortimer. “Violets at Home.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/collins_m/3/.
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