Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DESTINY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH



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First Line: Three roses, wan as moonlight, and weighed down
Last Line: Shut in the icy palm of her dead child.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Roses; Death - Babies


THREE roses, wan as moonlight and weighed down
Each with its loveliness as with a crown,
Drooped in a florist's window in a town.

The first a lover bought. It lay at rest,
Like flower on flower, that night, on Beauty's breast.

The second rose, as virginal and fair,
Shrunk in the tangles of a harlot's hair.

The third, a widow, with new grief made wild,
Shut in the icy palm of her dead child.





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