In a Kentish Rose Garden.
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
Beside a Dial in the leafy close,
Where every bush was burning with the Rose,
With million roses falling flake by flake
Upon the lawn in fading summer snows:
I read the Persian Poet's rhyme of old,
Each thought a ruby in a ring of gold--
Old thoughts so young, that, after all these years,
They're writ on every rose-leaf yet unrolled.
You may not know the secret tongue aright
The Sunbeams on their rosy tablets write;
Only a poet may perchance translate
Those ruby-tinted hieroglyphs of light.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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Scheme | XAXA BBXB BCXC |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 503 |
Words | 90 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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