PANSIES! Pansies! How I love you, pansies! Jaunty-faced, laughing-lipped and dewy-eyed with glee; Would my song but blossom out in little five-leaf stanzas As delicate in fancies As your beauty is to me! But my eyes shall smile on you, and my hands infold you, Pet, caress, and lift you to the lips that love you so, That, shut ever in the years that may mildew or mold you, My fancy shall behold you Fair as in the long ago. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO WORDSWORTH by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS THE DEPARTURE OF THE GOOD DAEMON by ROBERT HERRICK SUMMER APPROACHES by MABEL WARREN ARNOLD IMITATRIX ALES by AULUS LICINIUS ARCHIAS THE OLD CAMP; WRITTEN IN A ROMAN FORTIFICATION IN BAVARIA by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN THE UNKNOWN HAND by CLIFFORD BAX EPITAPH ON THE TOMBSTONE OF A CHILD, LAST OF SEVEN THAT DIED BEFORE by APHRA BEHN NIMROD: 2 by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH TEN YEARS HAVE PASSED; ON VIEWING WAR GRAVES AT VERDUN, 1928 by DON MAITLAND BUSHBY |