Edith Nesbit Poems

LIKE a fair flower springing fresh, sweet, and bright,
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I gathered shells upon the sand,
Each shell a little perfect thing,
So frail, yet potent to withstand
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HERE'S the Spring-time, Sweet!
Earth's green gown is new,
Lambs begin to bleat,
Doves begin to coo,
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THE house, with blind unhappy face,
Stands lonely in the last year's corn,
And in the grayness of the morn
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SLEEP, sleep, my treasure,
The long day's pleasure
Has tired the birds, to their nests they creep;
The garden still is
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RING, bells! flags, fly! and let the great crowd roar
Its ecstasy. Let the hid heart in prayer
Lift up your name. God bless you evermore,
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Good-bye, good-bye; it is not hard to part!
You have my heart--the heart that leaps to hear
Your name called by an echo in a dream;
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That was the skylark we heard
Singing so high,
The little quivering bird
We saw, and the sky.
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Across the field of day
In sudden blazon lay
The pallid bar of gold
Borne on the shield of day.
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THE sunshine of your presence lies
On the glad garden of my heart
And bids the leaves of silence part
To show the flowers to your dear eyes,
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