Written at the Request of a Gentleman to Whom a Lady Had Given a Sprig of Myrtle
What hopes - what terrors does this gift create
Ambiguous emblem of uncertain fate
The myrtle (ensign of supreme
Consign'd to Venus by Melissa's hand),
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Request To A Year
If the year is meditating a suitable gift,
I should like it to be the attitudeof my great- great- grandmother,legendary devotee of the arts,who having eight childrenand little opportunity for painting pictures,sat one day on a high rockbeside...
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