Charles Swain

Poems (3)

• A Violet in her Hair

  A Violet in her lovely hair, / A rose upon her bosom fair! …

• “Smile and never heed me”

  Though, when other maids stand by, / I may deign thee no reply, …

• “Take the world as it is”

  Take the world as it is!—there are good and bad in it, / And good and bad will be from now to the end; …