Poem by Helen Gray Cone

The Wish for a Chaplet

  Vineleaf and rose I would my chaplet make:
  I would my word were wine for all men's sake.
  Pure from the pressing of the stainless feet
  Of unblamed Hours, and for an altar meet.

  Vineleaf and rose: I would, had I the art,
  Distil, to lasting sweet, Joy's rosy heart,
  That no sere autumn should its fragrance wrong,
  Closed in the crystal glass of slender song.

1. Retrospect
2. The Going out of the Tide
3. Madonna Pia
4. The Trumpeter
5. The Gifts of the Oak

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