Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
Poems of Cheer — An Afternoon
(1914)
“ And a bronze-brown head, and lips like wine Leaning out through the window-vine A-list for steps that were maybe mine - Eager steps that were coming. I can see it all, as a dreamer may - The tender smile on your lips that day, And the glow on your cheek as we rode away Into the golden weather. And a love-light shone in your eyes of brown - I swear there did!--as we drove down The crowded avenue out of the town, Through shadowy lanes, together: Drove out into the sunset-skies That glowed with wonderful crimson dyes ”
