Dreamers and Other Poems

<p><SPAN name="THE_ROSE" id="THE_ROSE"></SPAN>THE ROSE</p> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">I took the love you gave, Ah, carelessly,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Counting it only as a rose to wear</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 4em;">A little moment on my heart no more,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 4em;">So many roses had I worn before,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">So lightly that I scarce believed them there.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">But, Lo! this rose between the dusk and dawn</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Hath turned to very flame upon my breast,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 4em;">A flame that burns the day-long and the night,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 4em;">A flame of very anguish and delight</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">That not for any moment yields me rest.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">And I am troubled with a strange, new fear,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">How would it be if even to your door</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 4em;">I came to cry your pitying one day,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 4em;">And you should lightly laugh and lightly say,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">"That was a rose I gave you&mdash;nothing more."</span><br/> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />