{"id":852,"date":"2013-02-03T05:43:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T05:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/?p=852"},"modified":"2013-02-03T05:52:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T05:52:52","slug":"poems-my-alice-m-walser-in-the-bouquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/852\/poems-my-alice-m-walser-in-the-bouquet\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems by Alice M. Walser in “The Bouquet”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Portrait of Alice Walser in “The Bouquet”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alice Walser, wife of George Walser, founder of Liberal, Missouri, contributed two poems to his volume of poetry, The Bouquet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

PIMPERNEL<\/h2>\n

LANGUAGE : \u2014 CHANGE<\/h3>\n

Can I tide this world of danger, <\/p>\n

‘Mid temptations, storms and strife; <\/p>\n

Can I walk the path forever
\nAs your true and faithful wife <\/p>\n

Can I feed a heart so tender
\nAs the one your bosom bears; <\/p>\n

Will my love for thee grow stronger
\nAs I walk this world of cares? <\/p>\n

In the spring time of our wooing <\/p>\n

Hope wears but a golden gleam: <\/p>\n

Will it change as we are going <\/p>\n

Down life’s long and troubl’d stream? <\/p>\n

As the cares of life encumber
\nUs with duties hard to bear; <\/p>\n

Will our hearts be young and tender,
\nAs we feel to day they are ? <\/p>\n

I can trust your fond devotion; <\/p>\n

1 can trust the heart you bear;
\nBut will my first fond emotion <\/p>\n

Ever stronger, stronger wear? <\/p>\n

Will I be a fond companion. <\/p>\n

Through life’s long and trying range:
\nWill I honor my dominion; <\/p>\n

Or like Pimpernel, will I change? <\/p>\n

In my hour of threaten’d danger: <\/p>\n

Spirit friends I trust to you;
\nGuide me that I may not wander; <\/p>\n

Let my heart be always true. <\/p>\n

Fill my mind with thoughts of beauty; <\/p>\n

Fill my heart with love, I crave;
\nLet me walk the paths of duty; <\/p>\n

To a peaceful, honor ‘d grave. <\/p>\n

IMPOMOEA, OR MAN-OF-THE-WORLD<\/h2>\n

Language: \u2014 LOVE ON THE WANE<\/h3>\n

When your love begins to wane,
\nI will feel a poignant pain; \u2014 –
\nMy own heart will tell me so;
\nSpare your words, for I shall know. <\/p>\n

By the half averted eyes;
\nBy the breast that no more sighs;
\nBy the rapture I shall miss
\nThrough thy strangely alter’d kiss. <\/p>\n

By the arms that do infold;
\nBy that chill that is untold;
\nBy the absence of that glow; \u2014
\nI shall know love, I shall know. <\/p>\n

Bitter will that stinging be;
\nWorse than words expressed to me;
\nWorse than sighs of utter’d pain;
\nWhen your love begins to wane. <\/p>\n

Though it come not from your tongue;
\nThough you think my heart unstung; \u2014
\nWhen your love begins to go,
\nI will know dear, I will know. <\/p>\n

* * * * * * * * *<\/p>\n

In the rear of the book is given the following description of the pimpernel. <\/p>\n

The pimpernel, or anagallis is a genus of annual and biennial
\nplants; they are universal favorites for planting in the beds of flower
\ngardens. They are propagated by seeds or by cuttings. The name
\nis derived from anageleo, to laugh. The Pimpernal is fabled as
\nhaving the power to drive away gloom and despondency. It does
\nnot unfold its petals until eight o’clock in the morning and then
\ncloses them again towards noon; from this habit it has gained the
\ncognomen of “the poor man’s hour glass. “It is also sometimes
\ncalled the “Shepherd’s Warning,” from the fact that it closes its
\npetals on the approach of rain. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alice Walser, wife of George Walser, founder of Liberal, Missouri, contributed two poems to his volume of poetry, The Bouquet. PIMPERNEL LANGUAGE : \u2014 CHANGE Can I tide this world of danger, ‘Mid temptations, storms and strife; Can I walk the path forever As your true and faithful wife Can I feed a heart so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liberal-missouri","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}