I LOVE you seek for, presupposes Summer heat and sunny glow. Tell me, do you find moss-roses Budding, blooming in the snow? Snow might kill the rose-tree's root -- Shake it quickly from your foot, Lest it harm you as you go. II From the ivy where it dapples A gray ruin, stone by stone, Do you look for grapes or apples, Or for sad green leaves alone? Pluck the leaves off, two or three -- Keep them for morality When you shall be safe and gone. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FLIRT by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES THE LOW-BACKED CAR by SAMUEL LOVER THE DEFENSE OF THE ALAMO [MARCH 6, 1835] by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER SEA UNICORNS AND LAND UNICORNS by MARIANNE MOORE PSYCHOLOPHON by FRANK GELETT BURGESS THE LAST OF MAY IN VERMONT by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY |