Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MIGNONETTE, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG


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MIGNONETTE, by                    
First Line: Today you sent me mignonette
Last Line: In every spicy spray of mignonette!
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Mignonettes; Roses


Today you sent me mignonette:
As if, perchance, I might forget
That winding garden of our play-filled hours
Aflame with color, fragrant with bright flowers.

I need not even close my eyes to see
The box-wood hedge, or the crepe myrtle tree;
And though I left it many years ago,
Birds hover near the roses still, I know,
And little children stoop to look within
The lily-cups, so white and pure and thin.

I see that dear old garden blooming yet
In every spicy spray of mignonette!





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