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BALLAD: TIME OF ROSES by THOMAS HOOD

Poet Analysis

First Line: IT WAS NOT IN THE WINTER / OUR LOVING LOT WAS CAST!
Last Line: WE PLUCK'D THEM AS WE PASS'D!
Subject(s): FLOWERS; INNOCENCE; LOVE; ROSES;

IT was not in the Winter
Our loving lot was cast;
It was the time of roses --
We pluck'd them as we pass'd!

That churlish season never frown'd
On early lovers yet:
O no -- the world was newly crown'd
With flowers when first we met!

'Twas twilight, and I bade you go,
But still you held me fast;
It was the time of roses --
We pluck'd them as we pass'd!



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