Love
What Though the Green Leaf Grow?
From An American Anthology, 1787–1900, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
Love
What though the green leaf grow?
’T will last a month and day;
In all sweet flowers that blow
Lurks Death, his slave Decay.
But if my lady smile
There is no Death at all;
The world is fair the while,—
What though the red leaf fall?
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MLA
Fleming, Maybury. “What Though the Green Leaf Grow?” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/fleming_m/1/.
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Fleming, Maybury. “What Though the Green Leaf Grow?” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/fleming_m/1/.
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