Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO HIS DAUGHTER, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT


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TO HIS DAUGHTER, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I bought you flowers on ludgate hill
Last Line: A queen like you, my darling.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert
Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Socialism


I BOUGHT you flowers on Ludgate Hill,
Dear violets in December,
And all the way to Charing Cross
They whispered of the rain-wet moss,
The budding briars, the April days,
The pageant of the woodland ways,
And all the pleasant plots and plays
That you and I remember.

I met you on the platform chill
Where winter winds were snarling;
Your smile that lit that gloomy place
Lit up for me that other face
Of her who sold the violets -- mean,
Poor, broken, desolate, unclean:
A ruined slave, who might have been
A Queen like you, my darling.







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