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"Commemorative Feelings, or Miscellaneous Poems." In the digital collection British Women Romantic Poets. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/WalkSComme. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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[ROSE LEAVES]
ON seeing a profusion of rose leaves, it occurred to the Author's fancy, that by filling pillows with flowers, their influence might extend according to their different vir‐ tues, real or fictitious, either to the heart or imagina‐ tion of the person who reposed on them.
THE wearied warrior from the fightRetires, and oft at closing night,Reckless of her who wears the willow,Makes of his faithful shield a pillow.
The sea‐boy, when the storm blows loud,A shelter finds beneath the shroud,Yet haply sinks into the billowEre he has known a softer pillow.
But here we offer to your viewCharms, through each coming night, still new;For every wearied head a pillowWhere threats no sword, nor stormy billow.
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Here Sorrow sleeps, and softly breathes,Encircled in Lethean wreaths;Nor dreams of shades o'erhung with willow,For soothing poppies grace her pillow.
Here anxious Love shall gently rest,And feeling hearts, in visions blest,Untost by Passions' stormy billow,Of thornless roses find a pillow.
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