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ONE SWALLOW DOES NOT MAKE A SUMMER' by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: A ROSE WHICH SPIED ONE SWALLOW
Last Line: But that Rose never more
Subject(s): WINTER; SPRING;

A ROSE which spied one Swallow
Made haste to blush and blow :
'Others are sure to follow':
Ah no, not so!
The wandering clouds still owe
A few fresh flakes of snow.
Chill fog must fill the hollow.
Before the bird-stream flow
In flood across the main,
And Winter's woe
End in glad Summer come again.
Then thousand flowers may blossom
by the shore,''"
But that Rose never more.



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