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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"Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD9188.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 21, 2025.

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THE LUNCH.

A GOTHIC window, where a damask curtain Made the blank daylight shadowy and uncertain: A slab of agate on four eagle-talons Held trimly up and neatly taught to balance: A porcelain dish, o'er which in many a cluster Black grapes hung down, dead-ripe and without lustre:

Page 43

A melon cut in thin, delicious slices: A cake that seemed mosaic-work in spices: Two China cups with golden tulips sunny, And rich inside with chocolate like honey: And she and I the banquet-scene completing With dreamy words—and very pleasant eating!
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