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In the Morning

Chapter 30: TO MARGARET, ON ST. VALENTINE’S DAY.
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A sequence of lyric poems that meditates on dawn, nature, and spiritual feeling, often deploying mountain, forest, and seaside imagery to probe grief, consolation, and renewal. Poems move among quiet pastorals, occasional and domestic verse, devotional hymns, translations, and lighter nonsense pieces, following seasonal rhythms and holiday observances. The voice shifts between elegiac introspection and bright affirmation, favoring sensory detail—birdsong, running water, sunlight—and a consolatory outlook that finds moral and emotional sustenance in simple scenes and ritual moments.

TO MARGARET, ON ST. VALENTINE’S DAY.

WITH A ROSE.

Margaret, pearl of dainty pearls,
Fairest of dimpled daisies,
My rose its velvet sail unfurls
To bear thee love and praises.
It drifts from port, no longer mine—
Bring back, wee boat, my Valentine!