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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET, by CAROLINE PARKER SMITH
First Line: I have no knack with growing garden flowers
Last Line: Fruit, like the flowers, in lips that shall be sealed.
Subject(s): Flowers
First Line: I have no knack with growing garden flowers
Last Line: Fruit, like the flowers, in lips that shall be sealed.
Subject(s): Flowers
I have no knack with growing garden flowers
Arranging them in vases for display,
Gathering them from fields along the way:
Nor would I pluck the marshmallow that towers
Above the cat-tails in their reeded bowers,
But rather would I watch life grow each day—
First in the bud, during the month of May,
Till June, full-blown, brings in its ripened hours.
I would love best the flowers of the field
Left there to live and grow and scent the air.
For what could there be ever yet more fair
Than nature undefiled? So let it yield
Its beauty, that our souls may come to bear
Fruit, like the flowers, in lips that shall be sealed.
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