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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PASSING, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poet's Biography
First Line: With thoughts too lovely to be true
Last Line: The gorse in flower.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Flowers; Love
First Line: With thoughts too lovely to be true
Last Line: The gorse in flower.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Flowers; Love
WITH thoughts too lovely to be true,
With thousand, thousand dreams I strew
The path that you must come. And you
Will find but dew.
I set an image in the grass,
A shape to smile on you. Alas!
It is a shadow in a glass,
And so will pass.
I break my heart here, love, to dower
With all its inmost sweet your bower.
What scent will greet you in an hour?
The gorse in flower.
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