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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

V. Trees: Flowers: Plants

The Wreath

Meleager of Gadara (1st Century B.C.)

From the Greek by William M. Hardinge

NOW will I weave white violets, daffodils

With myrtle spray,

And lily bells that trembling laughter fills,

And the sweet crocus gay:

With these blue hyacinth, and the lover’s rose

That she may wear—

My sun-maiden—each scented flower that blows,

Upon her scented hair.