April Twilights and Other Poems

<h3><SPAN name="IN_ROSE-TIME" id="IN_ROSE-TIME"></SPAN>IN ROSE-TIME</h3> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><i><span class="letra">O</span>h, this is the joy of the rose:</i><br/></span> <span class="i4"><i>That it blows,</i><br/></span> <span class="i6"><i>And goes.</i><br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Winter lasts a five-month,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Spring-time stays but one;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Yellow blow the rye-fields<br/></span> <span class="i2">When the rose is done.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Pines are clad at Yuletide<br/></span> <span class="i2">When the birch is bare,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And the holly’s greenest<br/></span> <span class="i2">In the frosty air.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Sorrow keeps a stone house<br/></span> <span class="i2">Builded grim and gray;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Pleasure hath a straw thatch<br/></span> <span class="i2">Hung with lanterns gay.<br/></span> <span class="i0">On her petty savings<br/></span> <span class="i2">Niggard Prudence thrives,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Passion, ere the moonset,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Bleeds a thousand lives.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_32" id="page_32">{32}</SPAN></span><br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Virtue hath a warm hearth&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i2">Folly’s dead and drowned;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Friendship hath her own when<br/></span> <span class="i2">Love is underground.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Ah! for me the madness<br/></span> <span class="i2">Of the spendthrift flower,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Burning myriad sunsets<br/></span> <span class="i2">In a single hour.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><i>For this is the joy of the rose:</i><br/></span> <span class="i4"><i>That it blows,</i><br/></span> <span class="i6"><i>And goes.</i><br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_33" id="page_33">{33}</SPAN></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />