| Samuel Kettell, ed. Specimens of American Poetry. 1829. | | | | With Wild Flowers to a Sick Friend | | By Lydia H. Sigourney (1791–1865) |
| | | RISE from the dells where ye first were born, | |
| From the tangled beds of the weed and thorn, | |
| Rise! for the dews of the morn are bright, | |
| And haste away with your brows of light.— | |
| —Should the green-house patricians with gathering frown, | 5 |
| On your plebeian vestures look haughtily down, | |
| Shrink not,—for His finger your heads hath bow’d, | |
| Who heeds the lowly and humbles the proud.— | |
| —The tardy spring, and the frosty sky, | |
| Have meted your robes with a miser’s eye, | 10 |
| And check’d the blush of your blossoms free,— | |
| With a gentler friend your home shall be; | |
| To a kinder ear you may tell your tale | |
| Of the zephyr’s kiss and the scented vale;— | |
| Ye are charm’d! ye are charm’d! and your fragrant sigh | 15 |
| Is health to the bosom on which ye die. | | | | |
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