Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TWO ROSES, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT


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TWO ROSES, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Were you to blame, child love
Last Line: To him.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


Were you to blame,
Child Love,
That as they came
So merrily across the fields,
A wild-rose-laden limb,
Teased her to pluck the flower it yields
For him?

Did you then pull,
Boy Love,
Your small hand full
Of petals, dropping one by one
O'er your palm's crumpled rim,
Until you left the husk alone
For him?

What a prank you played,
Fie Love!
Another maid
Laughed out, "Wilt thou my sweet bud have?"
And, then, was it your whim?
Plucked out the stem the first girl gave
To him.





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