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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHLOE'S VALENTINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE
First Line: With growing sense of diffidence
Last Line: When chloe's years are riper!
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day; Youth
First Line: With growing sense of diffidence
Last Line: When chloe's years are riper!
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day; Youth
With growing sense of diffidence
She pauses at the corner,
Quite unaware her bashful air
Doth passing well adorn her—
A child of Eve, bound to achieve
Her wish and post her letter,
Though fearing lest some one has guessed
The tremors that beset her.
A valentine!—the lace design
Upon the packet shows it.
The address down for fear the town
Will know it as she knows it.
Well, little maid, a careless Blade
May hold it in derision,
Nor even guess the tenderness
That prompted your decision!
The paper lace may find a place
Among his pipes and papers,
Considered quite unique and bright—
When folded into tapers!
Ah, well-a-day! the maids must play
At love and pay the piper,
But youth shall prance a lively dance
When Chloe's years are riper!
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