I SAID: This is a beautiful fresh rose. I said: I will delight me with its scent, Will watch its lovely curve of languishment, Will watch its leaves unclose, its heart unclose. I said: Old earth has put away her snows, All living things make merry to their bent, A flower is come for every flower that went In autumn, the sun glows, the south wind blows. So walking in a garden of delight I came upon one sheltered shadowed nook Where broad leaf shadows veiled the day with night, And there lay snow unmelted by the sun: -- I answered: Take who will the path I took, Winter nips once for all; love is but one. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A DIRGE (1) by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS IN HOSPITAL: 4. BEFORE by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY MEMORIAL TO D.C.: 2. PRAYER TO PERSEPHONE by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY HINDOO FUNERAL SONG by EDWIN ARNOLD WHITSUNDAY 1644 by JOSEPH BEAUMONT |