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TO MISTRESS ROSE by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON

Poet Analysis

First Line: A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME?
Last Line: "THAT SETS OUR HEARTS AFLAME!"
Subject(s): FLOWERS; ROSES;

A ROSE by any other name?
Nay, that could hardly be.
No other name, my Flower of June,
Could be the name for thee.

Dear darling of the summer-time
And love-child of the sun,
Whether by thy sweet breath beguiled
Or by thy thorns undone,

I know thee for the Queen of Flowers,
And toast thee by thy name, --
"Here's to the sweet young loveliness
That sets our hearts aflame!"



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