| Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920. |
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| William Ernest Henley. 1849–1903 |
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| 9. A Bowl of Roses |
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| IT was a bowl of roses: | |
| There in the light they lay, | |
| Languishing, glorying, glowing | |
| Their life away. | |
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| And the soul of them rose like a presence, | 5 |
| Into me crept and grew, | |
| And filled me with something—some one— | |
| O, was it you? | |
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