Love
With Lilacs
From An American Anthology, 1787–1900, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
Love
I beg the pardon of these flowers
For bringing them to one whose hair
Alone doth shame, beyond compare,
The sweetest blooms of richest bowers.
I beg the pardon of this maid
For offering them with hand less pure,
A heart less perfect, needing cure
By Love’s own music, softly played.
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Crandall, Charles Henry. “With Lilacs.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/crandall_ch/2/.
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Crandall, Charles Henry. “With Lilacs.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/crandall_ch/2/.
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