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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VIOLETS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poet's Biography
First Line: A friend brought sweetest violets
Last Line: "for thee his morning star he sets."
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Spring; Violets
First Line: A friend brought sweetest violets
Last Line: "for thee his morning star he sets."
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Spring; Violets
A FRIEND brought sweetest violets,
And laid them in my lap to-day,
And straight the Winter afternoon
Put on the brightness of the May.
The silent flowers, with subtle breath,
Beguiled away my thoughts of pain;
"O heart," their voiceless odor said,
"Put on thy robes of light again!"
"For Winter wanes, and Spring returns—
Dear Spring, when all things lovely shine;
And hidden ways and cloistered cells
Grow radiant as with bloom divine.
"That path cannot be wholly dark
Which God hath sown with violets:
Lo! on the earth, as in the sky,
For thee His morning star he sets."
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