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ON A ROSE PRESSED IN A BOOK by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON

Poet Analysis

First Line: I WIN THE SUMMER BACK AGAIN
Last Line: AT TOUCH OF THIS DEAD ROSE.
Subject(s): FLOWERS; ROSES; SUMMER;
I WIN the summer back again
At touch of this dead rose. --
O lavish joy! O tender pain!
The very June wind blows,
And thrills me with the old refrain
Whose music my heart knows:
I win the summer back again
At touch of this dead rose.

Ah, lost is all the summer's gain,
And lost my heart's repose;
And was it tears or was it rain
That wept the season's close?
The winter suns they coldly wane;
White fall the winter snows:
But Love and Summer come again
At touch of this dead rose.



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