Poetry of Kansas
 

Quatrain

We grow like what we love, the poets say;
Oh mighty Cupid! shall I then, some day,
    Grow shorter by a head, have tiny feet,
And beardless lips, and bang my hair, I
        pray?
___Arthur Graves Canfield
 
Sunflowers
Selected by Arthur Richmond Marsh
(Lawrence: Journal Publishing Co. 1888)
Page 58
 
April 2, 2005 / John & Susan Howell / Wichita, Kansas / howell@kotn.org

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