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Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920.

William Ernest Henley1849–1903

A Bowl of Roses

IT was a bowl of roses:

There in the light they lay,

Languishing, glorying, glowing

Their life away.

And the soul of them rose like a presence,

Into me crept and grew,

And filled me with something—some one—

O, was it you?


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