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FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 5. VIOLET, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Small fragrant print of april's feet
Last Line: And lay it here among my rhymes.
Subject(s): April; Flowers; Passion; Violets


SMALL fragrant print of April's feet;
Dream in the dewy grass, more sweet
Than virgin visions mavis weaves
At dawn beneath the sunlit eaves,
Secret as passion unconfest,
Within the dreaming maiden's breast,
Tinct with her veins' delicious hue,
And, like her lashes, touched with dew:
Violet, -- kneeling near your shrine,
Starred with the golden celandine,
Like sunflakes on a coverlet
Which golden dreams of love beget, --
I, feeling past your petal's hem
Along your cool and slender stem,
Pluck your unravished bloom betimes,
And lay it here among my rhymes.





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