Love
To a Rose
From An American Anthology, 1787–1900, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
Love
Go, Rose, and in her golden hair
You shall forget the garden soon;
The sunshine is a captive there
And crowns her with a constant noon.
And when your spicy odor goes,
And fades the beauty of your bloom,
Think what a lovely hand, O Rose,
Shall place your body in the tomb!
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Sherman, Frank Dempster. “To a Rose.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/sherman/7/.
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Sherman, Frank Dempster. “To a Rose.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/sherman/7/.
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