Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO MISTRESS ROSE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON


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First Line: A rose by any other name?
Last Line: "that sets our hearts aflame!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


A ROSE by any other name?
Nay, that could hardly be.
No other name, my Flower of June,
Could be the name for thee.

Dear darling of the summer-time
And love-child of the sun,
Whether by thy sweet breath beguiled
Or by thy thorns undone,

I know thee for the Queen of Flowers,
And toast thee by thy name, --
"Here's to the sweet young loveliness
That sets our hearts aflame!"





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