I SAID: This is a beautiful fresh rose. I said: I will delight me with its scent, Will watch its lovely curve of languishment, Will watch its leaves unclose, its heart unclose. I said: Old earth has put away her snows, All living things make merry to their bent, A flower is come for every flower that went In autumn, the sun glows, the south wind blows. So walking in a garden of delight I came upon one sheltered shadowed nook Where broad leaf shadows veiled the day with night, And there lay snow unmelted by the sun: -- I answered: Take who will the path I took, Winter nips once for all; love is but one. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BUCOLIC COMEDY: AUBADE by EDITH SITWELL A PORTRAIT by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING HEADS, HEARTS, AND HANDS by GEORGE W. BUNGAY STREET MUSIC by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON STORM-LOVER by MAUD LUDINGTON CAIN AFRICA by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. THE WEST'S ASLEEP by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS |