LOVE, it is the time of roses! In bright fields and garden closes How they burgeon and unfold! How they sweep o'er tombs and towers In voluptuous crimson showers And untrammelled tides of gold! How they lure wild bees to capture All the rich mellifluous rapture Of their magical perfume, And to passing winds surrender And their frail and dazzling splendour Rivalling your turban-plume! How they cleave the air adorning The high rivers of the morning In a blithe, bejewelled fleet! How they deck the moonlit grasses In thick rainbow tinted masses Like a fair queen's bridal sheet! Hide me in a shrine of roses, Drown me in a wine of roses Drawn from every fragrant grove! Bind me on a pyre of roses, Burn me in a fire of roses, Crown me with the rose of Love! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ROSE I GREW by JULIA S. ANDERSON TO HASEKAWA by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG THE KNIGHTS: DEMOS AND HIS FLATTERER by ARISTOPHANES TO A MOUNTAIN BROOK by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON DRINKING SONG OF MUNICH by THOMAS CAMPBELL SECOND MARRIAGE by EMMA RIGBY COLEMAN |