Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GATHERED ROSES, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poet's Biography First Line: As one through some beloved garden strays Last Line: Given to emptiness and wind and snow? Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Roses; Snow | ||||||||
AS one through some beloved garden strays For the last time, and, lingering, stays to break A blossom here and there for old love's sake, So I go back through our lost yesterdays And cull my fragrant memories -- your praise And pride of me, the songs we used to make, The happy name you gave me. Oh, I take So little ere I face the untried ways. How will it be, dear, when I look on these My gathered roses in the years to be? Shall I behold love's garden all ablow As once we knew it, or, as one who sees That place he loved, deserted utterly, Given to emptiness and wind and snow? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BRIGHT SUN AFTER HEAVY SNOW by JANE KENYON SNOW FALLING THROUGH FOG by WILLIAM MATTHEWS THE SNOW FAIRY by CLAUDE MCKAY NOT ONLY ESKIMOS by LISEL MUELLER A BOOK OF CELTIC VERSE (TO SEUMAS MACMANUS) by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON |
|