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


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PHYLLIS, by                    
First Line: She might have stepped out of a little book
Last Line: And there was phyllis playing by the brook!
Subject(s): Books; Hearts; Love; Paintings And Painters; Portraits; Reading


She might have stepped out of a little book
I used to treasure in a by-gone day:
Judging from her shy smile, her wistful look
She might have posed for dear Kate Greenaway
To paint those little maids of Long Ago.
Who made our childhood colorful and gay.

Upon my heart's wide stage she gayly tripped.
Dressed in a silken frock of pale shell-pink
And right away her cool child fingers slipped
Into my hand—she loved me too, I think.
She might have been a fairy sitting there.
Forming with distant yesterdays a link.
And I, who should be reading wiser things,
Drew from its shelf tonight a little book
Ragged and thumbled with frequent handlings;
Swiftly, with misty eyes, I stole a look
At those loved figures of the painted page—
And there was Phyllis playing by the brook!





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