Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WITH ROSES, by SHEFFIELD PHELPS


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WITH ROSES, by                    
First Line: Within the box whose gilded sides
Last Line: Long years ago.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Loss Of; Roses


WITHIN the box whose gilded sides
Set off the crimson rose which hides
Within the lustre of her hair,
She leaned demurely, sweet and fair,
Long years ago.

You scarce would think her conscious that
She was the soul of him who sat
Within the stalls so trifling gay,
Waiting to hear what the rose would say,
Long years ago.

Smiling to him who o'er her bent,
She kissed the rose, and o'er it sent
A glance, -- a Cupid's gay despatch, --
And so the rosebud made the match
Long years ago.

ENVOY.

So read my roses, love, aright;
And when you grace the box to-night,
Pray let them find a soul a-latch,
As did the rose that made the match
Long years ago.





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