Love
Valse Jeune
From An American Anthology, 1787–1900, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
Love
Are there favoring ladies above thee?
Are there dowries and lands? Do they say
Seven others are fair? But I love thee:
Aultre n'auray!
All the sea is a lawn in our country;
All the morrow, our star of delay.
I am King: let me live on thy bounty!
Aultre n'auray!
To the fingers so light and so rosy
That have pinioned my heart, (welladay!)
Be a kiss, be a ring with this posy:
Aultre n'auray!
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MLA
Guiney, Louise Imogen. “Valse Jeune.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/guiney/12/.
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Guiney, Louise Imogen. “Valse Jeune.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/guiney/12/.
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