Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Home: IV. Youth | | A Knot of Blue | | Samuel Minturn Peck (1854–1938) |
| | For the Boys of Yale
SHE hath no gems of lustre bright | |
| To sparkle in her hair; | |
| No need hath she of borrowed light | |
| To make her beauty fair. | |
| Upon her shining locks afloat | 5 |
| Are daisies wet with dew, | |
| And peeping from her lissome throat | |
| A little knot of blue. | |
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| A dainty knot of blue, | |
| A ribbon blithe of hue. | 10 |
| It fills my dreams with sunny gleams,— | |
| That little knot of blue. | |
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| I met her down the shadowed lane, | |
| Beneath the apple-tree, | |
| The balmy blossoms fell like rain | 15 |
| Upon my love and me: | |
| And what I said or what I did | |
| That morn I never knew, | |
| But to my breast there came and hid | |
| A little knot of blue. | 20 |
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| A little knot of blue, | |
| A love knot strong and true, | |
| ’T will hold my heart till life shall part,— | |
| That little knot of blue. | | | | |
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