Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE THORN THAT GUARDS, by T. G. P.


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THE THORN THAT GUARDS, by                    
First Line: Far in the corner on the stairs
Last Line: "you forget what american beauties cost."
Subject(s): Flowers


FAR in the corner on the stairs,
We were sitting together, she and I;
The murmuring music was soft and low,
Like zephyrs that float 'neath a summer sky.

She held in her fingers a deep red rose,
And was plucking the petals, one by one;
Her eyes were filled with the dreamy light
That softens the west when the day is done.

"Ah, Mildred, you are a bud yourself;
Its blushing sweetness is wholly thine;
Cannot you let me press the flower,
And keep it forever, and call it mine?"

The fair lips trembled, the dimples smiled,
Her eyes told clearly that I had lost;
But my heart still hoped, till she gently sighed,
"You forget what American Beauties cost."





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