I had not thought of violets of late,
The wild, shy kind that springs beneath your feet
In wistful April days.
Source: Violets; in The Monthly Review, 1895.
-- Alice Dunbar-Nelson, ( 1875-1935), US poet, essayist; She published her first book of poems, essays, and stories, Violets and Other Tales, at age twenty; was also active in politics and women's clubs.