1 THE ACCEPTED TIME Adore the Roses; nor delay Until the rose-fane fall, Or ever their censers cease to sway: "To-day!" the rose-priests call. 2 WITHOUT PRICE Have the Roses. Needs no pelf The blooms to buy, Nor any rose-bed to thyself Thy skill to try: But live up to the Rose's light, Thy meat shall turn to roses red, Thy bread to roses white. 3 GRAIN BY GRAIN Grain by grain the Desert drifts Against the Garden-Land: Hedge well thy Roses, head the stealth Of ever-creeping Land. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NO COMING TO GOD WITHOUT CHRIST by ROBERT HERRICK ITALY SWEET TOO! by JOHN KEATS SONG [WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1732] by GEORGE LYTTELTON AFTER MUSIC by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY FIDELIA: 4. THE AUTHOR'S RESOLUTION IN A SONNET by GEORGE WITHER TO A SHADE by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS GRAY MOOD by MARJORIE AKERMAN B. |