dots-menu
×

Home  »  An American Anthology, 1787–1900  »  679 Envoy

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By Sarah Morgan BryanPiatt

679 Envoy

SWEET World, if you will hear me now:

I may not own a sounding Lyre

And wear my name upon my brow

Like some great jewel quick with fire.

But let me, singing, sit apart,

In tender quiet with a few,

And keep my fame upon my heart,

A little blush-rose wet with dew.