Love
Epicurean
From The Poets and the Poetry of the Century, ed. Alfred H. Miles
Love
In Childhood's unsuspicious hours
The fairies crown'd my head with flowers.
Youth came: I lay at Beauty's feet;
She smiled and said my song was sweet.
Then Age: and, Love no longer mine,
My brows I shaded with the vine.
With flowers and love and wine and song,
O Death! life hath not been too long.
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Linton, William James. “Epicurean.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/linton/0/.
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Linton, William James. “Epicurean.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/linton/0/.
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