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HERBAL by KATHARINE TYNAN

First Line: LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING NOW IS FOUND
Last Line: NOW IN ANY COMMON GROUND.
Subject(s): FLOWERS; HERBS;

LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING now is found
Grown in every common ground.
Love-lies-bleeding thrives apace
With the dear forget-me-not
Now in any garden plot.

Love-in-a-mist, bewilderèd
With the many tears Love shed,
Seeks for herb-o'-grace to bind
Up her wounds, and fever-few
To give ease to a hurt mind;
Wound-wort is not wanting too.

Now the love-lies-bleeding grows
More than lily or the rose;
Love-in-idleness has gone
Out of fashion; here are flowers—
Heartsease for to rest upon
With remembrance of sweet hours.

Ladders-to-heaven may be found
Now in any common ground.



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