Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, VIOLETS, by CHARLOTTE SMITH


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First Line: Sweet violets! From your humble beds
Last Line: With all that wealth bestows, or pageant heraldry.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


Sweet Violets! from your humble beds
Among the moss, beneath the thorn,
You rear your unprotected heads,
And brave the cold and cheerless morn
Of early March; not yet are past
The wintry cloud, the sullen blast,
Which, when your fragrant buds shall blow,
May lay those purple beauties low.
Ah, stay awhile, till warmer showers
And brighter suns shall cheer the day;
Sweet Violets stay, till hardier flowers
Prepare to meet the lovely May.
Then from your mossy shelter come,
And rival every richer bloom;
For though their colours gayer shine,
Their odours do not equal thine.
And thus real merit still may dare to vie,
With all that wealth bestows, or pageant heraldry.





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