Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON AN ARTIFICIAL ROSE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON


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ON AN ARTIFICIAL ROSE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As fairy like, thy bounding feet
Last Line: This rose shall bloom eternally!
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


I.
AS fairy like, thy bounding feet
The joyful ground to music beat,
Fair dancer! from thy garment fell
This mimic rose I love so well.

II.
I snatch'd it up—I kiss'd—I prest
The fallen treasure to my breast;
Nor all the sweets of Eden's bower
Should tempt me to resign this flower.

III.
Now let old Anacreon sing
His darling rose, the pride of spring;
To me more dear,—to me more sweet,
Than nature's flower, this counterfeit.

IV.
Say'st thou that its leaves are dry?
At night I'll fill the goblet high;
And as the bowl to thee I drain,
I'll sprinkle them with ruby rain.

V.
Tell me not the garden's rose
With bloom inimitable glows;
Rough winter comes with withering blast;
Transient charm! behold it past.

VI.
Time shall ne'er these leaves invade;
They ne'er shall fall—they ne'er shall fade;
But, like the love I bear to thee,
This rose shall bloom eternally!





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