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Poems

Chapter 70: RED ROSES
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A varied collection of lyric and narrative verse that moves between short songs, sonnets, rondels, and longer meditative pieces. Many poems use pastoral and seasonal imagery to celebrate fields, harvest, and the sensory life of the natural world while also acknowledging the hardships and dignity of rural labor. Recurring themes include love, absence, memory, and spiritual longing, treated with formal variety and musical language. The tone alternates between celebratory, elegiac, and reflective, blending vivid description with moral and emotional observation.

RED ROSES

The rose that comes on winter’s day
It is the rarest rose—(they say)
To venture forth so bright and bold,
With velvet leaves and heart of gold,
To wear so brave array:—
Daring the icy atmosphere,
Your winter roses, greet me—Dear
And love, all warm amid the snows,
Comes with the rose.