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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A BOWL OF ROSES, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a bowl of roses
Last Line: O, was it you?
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses
First Line: It was a bowl of roses
Last Line: O, was it you?
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses
It was a bowl of roses:
There in the light they lay,
Languishing, glorying, glowing
Their life away.
And the soul of them rose like a presence,
Into me crept and grew,
And filled me with something -- some one --
O, was it you?
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