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 May 1, 2024.

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BEFORE THE RAIN

 THE poplar shows its white teeth to the gust                   , Driven out the east and up the still highway; The alders bow like reeds. A cloud of dust Whirls by, and with it scents from hollows gray, Scents from a hundred fields, the petals fair Of blossoming brambles by the fence a-row. The wind passes, and Io, each bush is bare! There at the gate, the one rose late agrow Lies in the path, a little quaking heap Of crimson leaves. The lily there is now A little snow blown through the grasses deep. Light airs and gentle sounds haunt blade and bough; Then, in the silence following again, Fall sudden-sweet great drops of silver rain.