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Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Song
O roses for the flush of youth,
And laurel for the perfect prime;
But pluck an ivy branch for me
Grown old before my time.
O violets for the grave of youth,
And bay for those dead in their prime;
Give me the withered leaves I chose
Before in the old time.
Christina Georgina Rossetti
Christina Georgina Rossetti's other poems:- Noble Sisters
- Confluents
- The Lambs of Grasmere, 1860
- In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857
- An End
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Samuel Johnson Song ("Not the soft sighs of vernal gales") Charlotte Mew Song ("Love love to-day, my dear") John Davidson Song ("THE boat is chafing at our long delay") Percy Shelley Song ("Rarely, rarely, comest thou") George Etherege Song ("LADIES, though to your conquering eyes") Edgar Poe Song ("I saw thee on thy bridal day") 1827Bryan Procter Song ("Here's a health to thee, Mary") Bayard Taylor Song ("NOW the days are brief and drear") Mary Chudleigh Song ("Why, Damon, why, why, why so pressing?") Isaac Bickerstaffe Song ("How happy were my days, till now") George Lyttelton Song ("When Delia on the plain appears") 1732Philip Massinger Song ("Why art thou slow, thou rest of trouble, Death") Hilaire Belloc Song ("Inviting the influence of a young lady upon the opening year") Amy Lowell Song ("Oh! To be a flower") Elinor Wylie Song ("It is my thoughts that colour") Mary Montagu Song ("How happy is the harden'd heart") Emma Lazarus Song ("Frosty lies the winter-landscape") Richard Sheridan Song ("Here’s to the maiden of bashful fifteen") George Crabbe Song ("Cease to bid me not to sing") Anna Seward Song ("FROM thy waves, stormy Llannon, I fly") Aubrey De Vere Song ("HIS war-horse beats a distant bourne") Edith Nesbit Song ("NOW the Spring is waking") Maria Lowell Song ("O BIRD, thou dartest to the sun") William Monkhouse Song ("WHO calls me bold because I won my love") Eliza Acton Song ("Give me gay music !—we will not dwell") Thomas Eliot Song ("If space and time, as sages say") 1907Irwin Ginsberg Song ("The weight of the world") 1954
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