quote · Legacy record
I love the flowers that come about with spring, And whether they be scarlet, white or blue, It mattereth to me not anything, For when I see them full of sun and dew, My heart doth get so full with its delight, I know not blue from red, nor red from white.
I love the flowers that come about with spring, And whether they be scarlet, white or blue, It mattereth to me not anything, For when I see them full of sun and dew, My heart doth get so full with its delight, I know not blue from red, nor red from white.
In print by 1911 AD · modern
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- Alice Cary
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- In print by 1911 AD · modern
In print by 1911: recorded in The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 155; printed byline: Alice Cary; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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