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"Hermione and other poems [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAP5349.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 5, 2024.
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UNTIMELY THOUGHT
I LOOKED across the lawn one summer's day;Deep shadowed, dreaming in the drowsy light,And thought, what if this afternoon, so brightAnd still, should end it?—as it may.
Blue dome, and flocks of fleece that slowly passBefore the pale old moon, the while she keepsHer sleepy watch, and ancient pear that sweepsIts low, fruit-laden skirts along the grass.
What if I had to say to all of these,"So this is the last time"—suddenly there
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My love came loitering under the great trees;
And now the thought I could no longer bear:Startled I flung it from me, as one flingsAll sharply from the hand a bee that stings.
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