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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A PRESSED ROSE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR First Line: Lovely faded rose Last Line: A lovely faded rose. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Time | |||
LOVELY faded rose! Had but my fortune beckoned me that way Among the silver stirrings of the day That Nature for your blossom-triumph chose! Had I but seen your maiden leaves unfold From your immaculate heart of fragrant gold! I was not there; another passed -- who knows How many others, lovely faded rose? And yet, had it been I Who came between your crimson and the sky, You would have been a rose among the rest -- A beauty-breathing joy upon my breast, And then -- a rain of petals by the way. My thanks to God or man, who chose to lay Your glowing over-sweet Within the cloistered calm of this retreat. I would not have you for my wearing -- no. It had been easy to forget you, so. Now in my memory tenderly I close A lovely faded rose. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEVEN EYES: FINAL SECTION by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: COME OCTOBER by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN SLOWLY: I FREQUENTLY SLOWLY WISH by LYN HEJINIAN ALL THE DIFFICULT HOURS AND MINUTES by JANE HIRSHFIELD A DAY IS VAST by JANE HIRSHFIELD FROM THIS HEIGHT by TONY HOAGLAND A LYNMOUTH WIDOW by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR |
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