Identifier: poetspoetryofame1853gris (find matches)
Title: The poets and poetry of America : to the middle of the nineteenth century
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857 Haynes, F.W., former owner
Subjects: American poetry American poetry
Publisher: Philadelphia : A. Hart, late Carey & Hart
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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And watch the flowers till Summer's reign is o'er;
Preserve the seeds we sow in winter time
From burrowing moles, and blight, and icy rime;
And in their season cause the shoots to rise,
And make the dainty buds unseal their eyes—
And we will pluck the finest, and entwine
Chaplets, and lay them on thy rural shrine,
And sing our choral hymns, melodious, sweet, And dance with nimble feet,
And worship thee, as now, serenely gay,
The goddess of the flowers and queen of May! All hail, thou queen of May!

THE TWO BRIDES.
I saw two maids at the kirk, And both were fair and sweet;
One was in her bridal robe, One in her winding-sheet.
The choisters sang the hymn, The sacred rites were read—
And one for life to Life, And one to Death, was wed!
They went to their bridal beds In loveliness and bloom :
One in a merry castle, One in a solemn tomb.
One to the world of sleep, Lock'd in the arms of Love;
And one in the arms of Death Passd to the heavens above.
One to the morrow woke, In a world of sin and pain;
But the other was happier far,
And never woke again!
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