Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ONE SWALLOW DOES NOT MAKE A SUMMER', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: A rose which spied one swallow
Last Line: But that rose never more
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Winter; Spring


A ROSE which spied one Swallow
Made haste to blush and blow :
'Others are sure to follow':
Ah no, not so!
The wandering clouds still owe
A few fresh flakes of snow.
Chill fog must fill the hollow.
Before the bird-stream flow
In flood across the main,
And Winter's woe
End in glad Summer come again.
Then thousand flowers may blossom
by the shore,''"
But that Rose never more.





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