Sara Teasdale, comp. (1884–1933).
The Answering Voice: One Hundred Love Lyrics by Women. 1917.
Josephine Preston Peabody
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The hills at hand were brown;
And all the herd-bells called to me
As I came by the down.
Ever we stayed to pull
A white little rose, and a red little rose,
And a lock of silver wool.
And when True Love came by,
They thought him nought but the shepherd-boy.
Nobody knew but I!
Birds were in every tree.
Yet nobody heeded, nobody heard,
Nobody knew, save we.
How could a heart go wrong?
For his eyes I knew, and his knew mine,
Like an old, old song.