Nature
Heartsease in my garden bed
From Sing-Song (1872/1893)
Nature
Heartsease in my garden bed,
With sweetwilliam white and red,
Honeysuckle on my wall:—
Heartsease blossoms in my heart
When sweet William comes to call,
But it withers when we part,
And the honey-trumpets fall.
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MLA
Rossetti, Christina. “Heartsease in my garden bed.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/49/.
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Rossetti, Christina. “Heartsease in my garden bed.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/49/.
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