Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]
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Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]
Author
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907
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Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
1885
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BY studying my lady's eyes I've grown so learnéd day by day, So Machiavelian in this wise, That when I send her flowers, I say
To each small flower (no matter what, Geranium, pink, or tuberose, Syringa, or forget-me-not, Or violet) before it goes:
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"Be not triumphant, little flower, When on her haughty heart you lie, But modestly enjoy your hour: She'll weary of you by and by."
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