Withouten you No rose can grow; No leaf be green If never seen Your sweetest face; No bird have grace Or power to sing; Or anything Be kind, or fair, And you nowhere.
Elinor Wylie
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Little Elegy; Angels and Earthly Creatures (Alfred A. Knopf, 1929), p.63; Complete ten-line public-domain poem. Text and1929 title/copyright pages read in Wikisource edition; University of Toronto author index independently lists the poem. Preserves archaic “Withouten.” No modern musical setting use
- Little Elegy; Angels and Earthly Creatures (Alfred A. Knopf, 1929), p.63
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