Poems

Chapter 88: THE ROSE

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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.

THE ROSE

Never again, Dearest, oh never more!

Not in the spring-time’s swift enchanted reign,

Shall hope to hope, shall love to love implore,

Never again!

Not in the summer—nor when autumn’s wane

Blows the dry leaves along earth’s windy floor,

Nor in the winter: that strange joy and pain

No seasons’ circle ever can restore.

The roses of to-day no tears shall stain,—

They’re thornless! You shall see the rose you wore

Never again!