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PHYLLIS by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN

Poet Analysis

First Line: IN PETTICOAT OF GREEN
Last Line: HER HAND SEEMED MILK IN MILK, IT WAS SO WHITE.
Subject(s): BEAUTY;

In petticoat of green,
Her hair about her eyne,
Phyllis beneath an oak
Sat milking her fair flock:
Among that strained moisture, rare delight!
Her hand seemed milk in milk, it was so white.



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