Living
Shelley and Harriet Westbrook
From The Poems of William Watson (1893)
Living
A star look'd down from heaven and loved a flower
Grown in earth's garden--loved it for an hour:
Let eyes that trace his orbit in the spheres
Refuse not, to a ruin'd rosebud, tears.
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MLA
Watson, William. “Shelley and Harriet Westbrook.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/watson/96/.
Chicago
Watson, William. “Shelley and Harriet Westbrook.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/watson/96/.
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