Poem by Robert Lee Frost

The Rose Family

The rose is a rose,
And was always a rose.
But the theory now goes
That the apple’s a rose,
And the pear is, and so’s 
The plum, I suppose.
The dear only know
What will next prove a rose.
You, of course, are a rose--
But were always a rose.

1. The Gum-Gatherer
2. Place for a Third
3. The Courage to Be New
4. For Once, Then, Something
5. Flower-Gathering

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