SAID the budding Rose, "All night Have I dreamed of the joyous light: How long doth my lord delay! Come, Dawn, and kiss from mine eyes away The dewdrops cold and the shadows gray, That hide thee from my sight!" Said the full-blown Rose, "O Light! (So fair to the dreamer's sight!) How long doth the dew delay! Come back, sweet sister shadows gray, And lead me home from the world away, To the calm of the cloister Night!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BEFORE THE RAIN by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH BARNEY'S INVITATION by PHILIP FRENEAU ACCIDENT IN ART by RICHARD HOVEY A FAREWELL TO TOBACCO by CHARLES LAMB FAREWELL TO ARMS by GEORGE PEELE EPODE: 2. THE PRAISES OF A COUNTRY LIFE by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS |