Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FROM AN OLD FRENCH SONG-BOOK, by ANONYMOUS


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FROM AN OLD FRENCH SONG-BOOK, by                    
First Line: Within a dainty garden-close
Last Line: And rosy as a little rose
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening


Within a dainty garden-close
My love hath built a happy bower;
There clove doth grow and gillyflower,
Also the lily and the rose.

This garden is so good and fair,
With every pretty flower bedight,
A man might take his pleasure there
The whole day long and all the night.

Ah me for the dear garden's guest,
The nightingale and his sweet lay,
At evening and at break of day:
When he is tired, he taketh rest.

I saw her pluck, by two and three.
Violets in a meadow green,
The fairest I did ever see,
The sweetest that were ever seen.

I gaze upon her as she goes,
O white she is, and white as cream.
And soft as any little lamb,
And rosy as a little rose.





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