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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OLD-FASHIONED VALENTINE, by JESSIE WILMORE MURTON
First Line: Larkspur and mignonette! Well does she know
Last Line: Drops fragile bits of heaven at her feet.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers
First Line: Larkspur and mignonette! Well does she know
Last Line: Drops fragile bits of heaven at her feet.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers
Larkspur and mignonette! Well does she know
The florist brought them, scarce an hour ago --
This blue sheaf in the modernistic jar,
From which each spur lifts high a fragile star
In pale pastel or deeper violet
Against the fragrant cloud of mignonette,
While on the card, in letters bold and clear,
Is scrawled, "A valentine, for grandma dear!"
She knows they're hot-house grown -- that winter snow
Drifts deep outside -- yet, closing dim old eyes,
She walks where scent of mignonette hangs sweet
On an old garden of the long ago,
While tall blue larkspur, under sunlit skies,
Drops fragile bits of heaven at her feet.
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