VI

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of A Dead Rose

The bee that once did suck thee,

And build thy perfumed ambers up his hive,

And swoon in thee for joy, till scarce alive,—

If passing now,—would blindly overlook thee.

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