Arts & Sciences

The Wish for a Chaplet

by Helen Gray Cone 1859–1934

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.

MLA

Cone, Helen Gray. “The Wish for a Chaplet.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cone/91/.

Chicago

Cone, Helen Gray. “The Wish for a Chaplet.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cone/91/.

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