Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO THE CROWD, by GLADYS CROMWELL


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TO THE CROWD, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I hold a budding pleasure
Last Line: Buds and lees -- ambrosial power.
Subject(s): Happiness; Pleasure; Joy; Delight


WHEN I hold a budding pleasure
In my heart, can I diffuse it?
No; you want the musk full-measure,
Not the bud, -- so you refuse it.

When I hold an ebbing sorrow,
Can I share the balm with you?
No; you want no lessening morrow,
But meridian's deepest hue.

Blossom of my joy completest,
Zenith of my sorrow's hour,
Yours. So I may keep the sweetest:
Buds and lees -- ambrosial power.





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