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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LESSER BEAUTY, by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON Poet's Biography
First Line: You are the first wild violet of the year
Last Line: We would not barter for things more divine!
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets; Wellesley College
First Line: You are the first wild violet of the year
Last Line: We would not barter for things more divine!
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets; Wellesley College
YOU are the first wild violet of the year;
Young grass you are, and apple-bloom, and spray
Of honeysuckle; you are dawn of day,
And the first snow-fall! It is you I hear
When the March robin calls me loud and clear,
Or lonely rill goes singing on its way
Like some small flute of heav'n; or when the gray
Sad wood-dove calls and early stars appear.
And you it is within the wayside shrine
Carved tenderly; and in the folded wings
On some neglected tomb; and in the vine
And leaf and saint of old imaginings
On some forgotten missal -- little things
We would not barter for things more divine!
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LINES WRITTEN TO A TRANSLATOR OF GREEK POETRY by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON
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IN MEMORY: MISS JEWETT by GRACE ALLERTON ANDREWS
HERE ENTER NOT by KATHARINE CANBY BALDERSTON
I CLEANED MY HOUSE TODAY by KATHARINE CANBY BALDERSTON
MY GARDEN by KATHARINE CANBY BALDERSTON
LINES WRITTEN TO A TRANSLATOR OF GREEK POETRY by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON