Poems by Felicia Dorothea Browne/To a Beautiful Vine and a Rose-Bush

by Felicia Hemans

TO A BEAUTIFUL VINE AND A ROSE-BUSH.

Thou fair expanding mossy-rose,
    Long may thy opening foliage twine
    With this luxuriant cluster'd vine;
Which round thee wreathes its tender boughs.

Fair vine, long may thy leaves extend,
    While gentle showers refresh thy root;
Long may thy graceful branches bend,
    Enrich'd with purpling luscious fruit.

Sweet rose, long may thy flow'rs receive
The lucid tears of morn and eve;
Long mayst thou in profusion spread,
Thy straying buds of brigthest red.