Love
The Shadow Rose
From An American Anthology (1900)
Love
A noisette on my garden path
An ever-swaying shadow throws;
But if I pluck it strolling by,
I pluck the shadow with the rose.
Just near enough my heart you stood
To shadow it, — but was it fair
In him, who plucked and bore you off,
To leave your shadow lingering there?
Cite this poem
MLA
Rogers, Robert Cameron. “The Shadow Rose.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rogers_rc/4/.
Chicago
Rogers, Robert Cameron. “The Shadow Rose.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rogers_rc/4/.
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