A Sweet Perfume

Poetry from Dreams of Happiness, 1907

The nosegay that you casually left
sheds sweet perfume about the little room
and all my soul is lost in reverie
of you, my child, and this sweet perfume.
And then I see you lost in reverie
of me, your brow shadowed by a gloom.
The nosegay that you casually left
sheds all about the room a sweet perfume.