Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DE AMORE ET SPINIS, by ANONYMOUS First Line: There was a garden fenced with glowing finger Last Line: One colour hath the blood and one the rose Subject(s): Flowers;gardens & Gardening;love | ||||||||
THERE was a garden fenced with glowing flowers, Its queen's delight, and had we seen it, ours; And once as Amor culled, when wandering there, The richest chaplet for his flowing hair, His hand was wounded by a hidden thorn. Soon as he felt his tender fingers torn, And saw the bloody hand, away he flies, The large tear starting in his lovely eyes, And to his mother thus he made his moan, -- 'Whence have the roses, mother, hurtful grown? Why bear thy flowers a sting? They are my foes -- One colour hath the blood and one the rose.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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