Arts & Sciences
The Wish for a Chaplet
From The Ride to the Lady (1891)
Arts & Sciences
Vineleaf and rose I would my chaplet make:
I would my word were wine for all men's sake.
Pure from the pressing of the stainless feet
Of unblamed Hours, and for an altar meet.
Vineleaf and rose: I would, had I the art,
Distil, to lasting sweet, Joy's rosy heart,
That no sere autumn should its fragrance wrong,
Closed in the crystal glass of slender song.
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Cone, Helen Gray. “The Wish for a Chaplet.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cone/91/.
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Cone, Helen Gray. “The Wish for a Chaplet.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cone/91/.
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