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JUNE IN LONDON (WITH PUPILS), by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Books and heat, the dullard mind
Last Line: For her heart on this bright june morning!
Subject(s): London; Summer


BOOKS and heat, the dullard mind
Reeling under Cicero;
London landscape, roof and blind
Blacker e'en than London snow:
Pupils coming all day long,
All my pause the thought that she,
She I love, my joy and song,
Dreams by day and night of me.
Ah, might I gather a rose with its dew
For her heart on this bright June morning!

Doric of the roughest mould
Planned to make a Master sour;
Thirty lines of Virgil's gold
Slowly melting in an hour;
Ovid's treasure, and the gems
Horace polished for our eyes,
In a maze of roots and stems,
Hurdy-gurdies, cabmen's cries!
Ah, might I gather a rose in its dew
For her heart on this bright June morning

Envious twigs in leafy nook
Catch my love's long tresses fair,
E'en as Grecian branches shook
Down Diana's crown of hair!
While on Caesar's bridge I stand,
Fancy brings (but could they speak!)
Laura's lips, and, faintly tanned,
Peachy glimpses of her cheek!
Ah, might I gather a rose in its dew
For her heart on this bright June morning!





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