Anthology of magazine verse for 1920 and year book of american poetry / edited by William Stanley Braithwaite [electronic text]

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Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962

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Boston, Mass.: Small, Maynard & Company

1920

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"Anthology of magazine verse for 1920 and year book of american poetry / edited by William Stanley Braithwaite [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAE6677.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.

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I, WHO LAUGHED MY YOUTH AWAY

                      
                        I, who laughed my youth away
                      
                        And blew bubbles to the sky,
                      
                        Thin as air and frail as fire,
                      
                        Opals, pearls of such desire
                      
                        As a saint could but admire;
                      
                        Now as azure as a sigh,
                      
                        Then with passion all aglow —
                      
                        Golden, crimson, purple, gray    
                      
                        Moods and moments of a day —
                      
                        Have been gay,
                      
                        Yea,
                      
                        As they,
                      
                        Sailing high,
                      
                        Sinking low;
                      
                        Even so
                      
                        Pierrot,
                      
                        Walking Paris in a trance,
                      
                        With my weary feet in France
                      
                        And my heart in Bergamo,
                      
                        Loved — and lost my laughing way.

                      
                          I, of course, have never had
                        
                          Any great amount of gold
                        
                          Other than my bubbles hold.
                        
                          Love? I have no loving plan
                        
                          As a guide to beast or man,
                        
                          Being neither good nor bad,
                        
                          Just a sort of sorry lad.

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