SEND me thorns a half year through, Branches hung with frozen dew, Blight-leaf feuds and blanching hates, (If ye will) ye cankered Fates: All your leaden seasons' toil To fair weather lends a foil! 'Gainst December how June glows, -- Hey! the color of the rose! Bid the morning of my day (If ye will) be dull and gray; Chase afar the shining hours With a scourge of braided showers, Lightning-flash, and thunder-crack; But at eve the cloudy rack Blossoms like a garden-close, -- Hey! the color of the rose! Beauty, on whom homage waits, I appeal to thee from Fates. As my year and as my day Genial turn from cold and gray, Let the selfsame sign bespeak Thy rich heart upon thy cheek. Up the gracious June warmth goes, -- Hey! the color of the rose! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INFANT JOY, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE TO TIRZAH, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE THE BLACK RIDERS: 1 by STEPHEN CRANE HOMAGE TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM by WILLIAM EMPSON SONNET: 107 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE |