Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO VIOLET (WITH A BUNCH OF NAMESAKES), by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS


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TO VIOLET (WITH A BUNCH OF NAMESAKES), by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a maid - I am afraid
Last Line: My rhymes are filled with u.
Subject(s): Creative Ability; Flowers; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Violets; Inspiration; Creativity; Male-female Relations


THERE is a maid—I am afraid
To give her name to you—
Who makes great pets of violets—
I wish I were one, too.

Once in her youth, this all is truth,
She took some up to smell;—
In some strange way the records say,
Into her eyes they fell——

And there they stayed—they never fade—
She looks at me—sometimes,—
And then—Oh, then I seize my pen
And fall to writing rhymes.

But, sad mischance! My consonants
Desert—four vowels, too;
A, E, O, I, take wings, that's why
My rhymes are filled with U.





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