Through the open door
A drowsy smell of flowers — gay heliotrope,
And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette —
Comes faintly in, and silent chorus lends
To the pervading symphony of peace.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes

Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers — gay heliotrope, And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette — Comes faintly in, and silent...

Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers — gay heliotrope, And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette — Comes faintly in, and silent...

Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers — gay heliotrope, And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette — Comes faintly in, and silent...

Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers — gay heliotrope, And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette — Comes faintly in, and silent...