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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FORBIDDEN ROSE, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poet's Biography
First Line: She wore a cold, hard lily on her breast
Last Line: With passion, and whose very scent was red.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses
First Line: She wore a cold, hard lily on her breast
Last Line: With passion, and whose very scent was red.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses
She wore a cold, hard lily on her breast,
This nun; she sipped its sweetly acrid scent
All day between her prayers; the perfume blent
With her own lily bosom's parched unrest.
She sang the anthems of the virgin blest,
The brides of God; she sought enravishment
Of soul-white adoration, but she bent
Her head at evening like a flower distressed.
Alone within her dismal cell at last,
Writhing her hands in torment on her bed,
She suddenly tore away and from her cast
The lily, then caught back from out the past
Another flower, whose warm, soft petals bled
With passion, and whose very scent was red.
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