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MY PRETTY ROSE TREE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE

Poet Analysis

First Line: A FLOWER WAS OFFER'D TO ME
Last Line: AND HER THORNS WERE MY ONLY DELIGHT.
Subject(s): BIBLE; FLOWERS; MYTHOLOGY; ROSES;
A flower was offered to me,
Such a flower as May never bore;
But I said "I've a pretty rose tree,"
And I passed the sweet flower o'er.

Then I went to my pretty rose tree,
To tend her by day and by night;
But my rose turned away with jealousy,
And her thorns were my only delight.



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