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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DISCIPLINE, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poet's Biography
First Line: My life is full of scented fruits
Last Line: Thank heaven a garden lot is yours.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening
First Line: My life is full of scented fruits
Last Line: Thank heaven a garden lot is yours.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening
MY life is full of scented fruits,
My garden blooms with stocks and cloves;
Yet o'er the wall my fancy shoots,
And hankers after harsher loves.
"Ah! why," -- my foolish heart repines, --
"Was I not housed within a waste?
These velvet flowers and syrop-wines
Are sweet, but are not to my taste.
"A howling moor, a wattled hut,
A piercing smoke of sodden peat,
The savour of a roasted nut,
Would make my weary pulses beat."
O stupid brain that blindly swerves,
O heart that strives not, nor endures,
Since flowers are hardship to your nerves,
Thank heaven a garden lot is yours.
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