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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO TERESA, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear child of mine, the wealth of whose warm hair
Last Line: O what a fragrant coronal were mine!
Subject(s): Daughters
First Line: Dear child of mine, the wealth of whose warm hair
Last Line: O what a fragrant coronal were mine!
Subject(s): Daughters
DEAR child of mine, the wealth of whose warm hair
Hangs like ripe clusters of the apricot,
Thy blue eyes, gazing, comprehend me not,
But love me, and for love alone I care;
Thou listenest with a shy and serious air,
Like some Sabrina from her weedy grot
Outpeeping coyly when the noon is hot
To watch some shepherd piping unaware.
'Twas not for thee I sang, dear child; -- and yet
Would that my song could reach such ears as thine,
Pierce to young hearts unsullied by the fret
Of years in their white innocence divine;
Crowned with a wreath of buds still dewy-wet,
O what a fragrant coronal were mine!
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