Yellow Nineties 2.0 The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly, Volume 3 October 1894 <editor>Lorraine Janzen Kooistra</editor> </titleStmt> <editionStmt> <p> <date>2019</date> </p> </editionStmt> <publicationStmt> <idno>YBV3_14po</idno> <publisher>Yellow Nineties 2.0</publisher> <pubPlace>Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities</pubPlace> <address> <addrLine>English Department</addrLine> <addrLine>350 Victoria Street,</addrLine> <addrLine>Toronto ON,</addrLine> <addrLine>M5B 2K3</addrLine> <addrLine>Canada</addrLine> </address> <availability> <p>Usable according to the Creative Commons License <ref target="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike</ref>.</p> </availability> </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <biblStruct> <monogr> <editor> <persName>Henry Harland & Aubrey Beardsley</persName> </editor> <author>Theo Marzials</author> <title>To a Bunch of Lilac John Lane London Copeland & Day Boston October 1894 Marzials, Theophile. "To a Bunch of Lilac." The Yellow Book, vol. 3, October 1894 pp. 87-88. Yellow Book Digital Edition, edited by Dennis Denisoff and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra 2010-2014. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019. https://1890s.ca/YBV3_marzials_toabunch/

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To a Bunch of Lilac By Theo Marzials "Dis-moi la fleur, je te dirai la femme " Is it the April springing, Or the bird in the breeze above ? My throat is full of singing, My heart is full of love. O heart, are you not yet broken ? O dream, so done with and dead, Is life's one word not spoken, And the rede of it all not read ? No hope in the whole world over ! No hope in the infinite blue ! Yet I sing and laugh out like a lover— Oh, who is it, April—who ? And the glad young year is springing ; And the birds, and the breeze above, And the shrill tree-tops, are singing— And I am singing—of love.

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O beautiful 88 To a Bunch of Lilac O beautiful lilac flowers, Oh, say, is it you, is it you The sun-struck, love-sick hours Go faint for murmuring through ? O full of ineffable yearning, So balmy, mystical, deep, And faint beyond any discerning, Like far-off voices in sleep— 1 love you, O lilac, I love you ! Till life goes swooning by, I breathe and enwreathe and enfold you, And long but to love, and die.