Handful of lavender / Lizette Woodworth Reese [electronic text]

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Reese, Lizette Woodworth, 1856-1935

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Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

1893

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"Handful of lavender / Lizette Woodworth Reese [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAC5693.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.

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MID-MARCH

 IT is too early for white boughs, too late For snows. From out the hedge the wind lets fall A few last flakes, ragged and delicate. Down the stripped roads the maples start their small, Soft, 'wildering fires. Stained are the meadow stalks A rich and deepening red. The willow-tree Is woolly. In deserted garden-walks The lean bush crouching hints old royalty, Feels some June stir in the sharp air and knows Soon 'twill leap up and show the world a rose.

 The days go out with shouting; nights are loud; Wild, warring shapes the wood lifts in the cold: The moon's a sword of keen, barbaric gold, Plunged to the hilt into a pitch black cloud.