Poems (Piatt)/Volume 1/Reproof to a Rose

by Sarah Piatt

SONGS.

REPROOF TO A ROSE.

Sad rose, foolish rose, Fading on the floor,Will he love you while he knows There are many more At the very door?

Sad rose, foolish rose, One among the rest:Each is lovely—each that blows; It must be confest None is loveliest.

Sad rose, foolish rose, Had you known to wait,And with dead leaves or with snow Come alone and late— Sweet had been your fate!

Sad rose, foolish rose, If no other grewIn the wide world, I suppose My own lover, too, Would love—only you!