John Kendrick Bangs

Poems (3)

• May 30, 1893

  It seemed to be but chance, yet who shall say / That ’t was not part of Nature ’s own sweet way, …

• The Little Elf

  I met a little Elf-man, once, / Down where the lilies blow. …

• To a Whithered Rose

  Thy span of life was all too short— / A week or two at best— …