I LOVE you seek for, presupposes Summer heat and sunny glow. Tell me, do you find moss-roses Budding, blooming in the snow? Snow might kill the rose-tree's root -- Shake it quickly from your foot, Lest it harm you as you go. II From the ivy where it dapples A gray ruin, stone by stone, Do you look for grapes or apples, Or for sad green leaves alone? Pluck the leaves off, two or three -- Keep them for morality When you shall be safe and gone. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...STANZAS FOR MUSIC (4) by GEORGE GORDON BYRON IN HOSPITAL: 4. BEFORE by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY THE SONG OF AMORGEN by AMORGEN; AMERGIN GLUINGEI; THE SEA DREAM by WILLIAM ROSE BENET GWIN, KING OF NORWAY by WILLIAM BLAKE AB ASTRIS by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA AT THE FARRAGUT STATUE by ROBERT BRIDGES (1858-1941) |