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TO -, WITH A ROSE by SIDNEY LANIER

Poet Analysis

First Line: I ASKED MY HEART TO STAY
Last Line: I SEND A ROSE UNTO A ROSE.
Subject(s): FLOWERS; ROSES;
I ASKED my heart to say
Some word whose worth my love's devoir might pay
Upon my Lady's natal day.
Then said my heart to me:
Learn from the rhyme that now shall came to thee
What fits thy Love most lovingly.
This gift that learning shows;
For, as a rhyme unto its rhyme-twin goes,
I send a rose unto a Rose.



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