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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By Louise ImogenGuiney

1424 Of Joan’s Youth

I WOULD unto my fair restore

A simple thing:

The flushing cheek she had before!

Out-velveting

No more, no more,

By Severn shore,

The carmine grape, the moth’s auroral wing.

Ah, say how winds in flooding grass

Unmoor the rose;

Or guileful ways the salmon pass

To sea, disclose;

For so, alas,

With Love, alas,

With fatal, fatal Love, a girlhood goes.