Oh! royal is the rose, But barbed with many a dart; Beware, beware the rose, 'Tis cankered at the heart. Sweet, sweet the sunny down, Oh! lily, lily, lily down! Sweet, sweet, Verbena's bloom! Oh! pleasant, gentle, musky bloom! Dread, dread the sunny down; Lo! lily-hooded asp; Blooms, blooms no more Verbena; White-withered in your clasp. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FROM THE DARK TOWER by COUNTEE CULLEN SONNET: 94 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TO ALFRED TENNYSON, MY GRANDSON by ALFRED TENNYSON IN A GARRET by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN IN LAMPLIGHT by MARTIN DONISTHORPE ARMSTRONG LORD ROBERTS by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB ON AN INFANT UNBORN, AND THE MOTHER DYING IN TRAVAIL by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) |