Time & Brevity
O Far-off Rose!
From The Wayfarers (1898)
Time & Brevity
O far-off rose of long ago,
An hour of sweet, an hour of red,
To live, to breathe, and then to go
Into the dark ere June was dead!
Why say they: Roses shall return
With every year as years go on?
New spring-time and strange bloom, my rose,
And alien June; but thou art gone.
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Peabody, Josephine Preston. “O Far-off Rose!” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/peabody/141/.
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Peabody, Josephine Preston. “O Far-off Rose!” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/peabody/141/.
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