Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HEARTH-ROSES, by HERMAN MELVILLE


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First Line: The sugar-maple embers in bed
Last Line: Smelling sweet in our dust.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


The Sugar-Maple embers in bed
Here fended in Garden of Fire,
Like the Roses yield musk,
Like the Roses are Red,
Like the Roses expire
Lamented when low;
But, excelling the flower,
Are odorous in ashes
As e'en in their glow.

Ah, Love, when life closes,
Dying the death of the just,
May we vie with Hearth-Roses,
Smelling sweet in our dust.





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