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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 ALL day I bar you from my slightest thought; Make myself clear of you or any mark Of our wrecked dawn and the uprising lark; Am stern and strong, and do the thing I ought. Yet ever are there moments with you fraught: I hear you like some glad sound in the dark; You wait like bloom outside my branches stark; I dare not heed; else were my fight unfought. But when the clamor and the heat are done, And spent with both I come unto that door, Sleep opens for me every setting sun, The bitter lies behind, the sweet before. We that are twain by day, at night are one. A dream can bring me to your arms once more.