Lilies and Violets
I wait in a garden sweet,
Lilies are there and violets
And in the midst (O, heart, a-beat!)
She whom I love . . . who me forgets
Walking amid her violets.
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Mary Gilmore (1865-1962)
from Marri'd, and other verses, 1910
[Poem is in the public domain in Canada and the United States]
Mary Gilmore biography
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