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Elinor Wylie (1885-1928)

Little Elegy


              1Withouten you
              2No rose can grow;
              3No leaf be green
              4If never seen
              5Your sweetest face;
              6No bird have grace
              7Or power to sing;
              8Or anything
              9Be kind, or fair,
            10And you nowhere.

Notes

1] Withouten: medieval form of "without."


Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
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Original text: Elinor Wylie, Angels and Earthly Creatures (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929): 63. PS 3545 Y45A8 Robarts Library
Publication date note: Cf. Collected Poems of Elinor Wylie, foreword by William Rose Benét (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945): 233. PS 3545 Y45 A17 Robarts Library
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: 2004
Recent editing: 1:2004/6/16


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