Oh! royal is the rose, But barbed with many a dart; Beware, beware the rose, 'Tis cankered at the heart. Sweet, sweet the sunny down, Oh! lily, lily, lily down! Sweet, sweet, Verbena's bloom! Oh! pleasant, gentle, musky bloom! Dread, dread the sunny down; Lo! lily-hooded asp; Blooms, blooms no more Verbena; White-withered in your clasp. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MANNERLY MARGERY, MILK AND ALE by JOHN SKELTON THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: DECEMBER by EDMUND SPENSER TWO SONGS FROM THE PERSIAN: 1 by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH INDIA by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD ON THE RANGE by BARCROFT HENRY BOAKE THE ANSWER by IRMA LITTELL BOICE |