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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONGS OF ROSES: 4. THE FALLEN ROSE, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poet's Biography
First Line: Life, like an overweighted shaken rose
Last Line: Broke them away.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses
First Line: Life, like an overweighted shaken rose
Last Line: Broke them away.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses
LIFE, like an overweighted shaken rose,
Falls, in a cloud of colour, to my feet;
Its petals strew my first November snows,
Too soon, too fleet!
'Twas my own breath had blown the leaves apart,
My own hot eyelids stirred them where they lay;
It was the tumult of my own bright heart
Broke them away.
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