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FEMININE by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER

Poet Analysis

First Line: SHE MIGHT HAVE KNOWN IT IN THE EARLIER SPRING
Last Line: "MY NECK AND CRIED, ""LOVE, WE HAVE LOST A YEAR!"
Subject(s): WIT & HUMOR; TIME; WOMEN;
SHE might have known it in the earlier Spring, --
That all my heart with vague desire was stirred;
And, ere the Summer winds had taken wing,
I told her; but she smiled and said no word.

The Autumn's eager hand his red gold grasped,
And she was silent; till from skies grown drear
Fell soft one fine, first snow-flake, and she clasped
My neck and cried, "Love, we have lost a year!"



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