Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A FRAGMENT, by JOHN GAY


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First Line: Go, rose, my chloe's bosom grace
Last Line: You die with envy, I with love.
Variant Title(s): Love's Emblem
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


GO, rose, my Chloe's bosom grace.
How happy should I prove,
Might I supply that envied place
With never-fading love!
There, Phoenix-like, beneath her eye,
Involved in fragrance, burn and die.

Know, hapless flower, that thou shalt find
More fragrant roses there,
I see thy withering head reclined
With envy and despair;
One common fate we both must prove;
You die with envy, I with love.





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