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Melancholy
by:
Anna Katherine Green
(1846-1935)
For beauty such as hers is like a breath
Of distant music stealing through the hush
Of fragrant gardens, and like music draws
Its rarest charm from gentle melancholy.
But even a pearl will flush with sudden lights
If but the sun fall on it.
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poems by Anna Katherine Green