Time & Brevity
Rose-Rent
From Soldiers of the Light (1911)
Time & Brevity
Life! lordly giver and gay!
I, for this manor of Time,
Lightly and lovingly pay
Rent with the rose of a rhyme.
Cite this poem
MLA
Cone, Helen Gray. “Rose-Rent.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cone/125/.
Chicago
Cone, Helen Gray. “Rose-Rent.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cone/125/.
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