“The budding rose above the rose full blown.”
William Wordsworth book The Prelude
Bk. XI, l. 121.
The Prelude (1799-1805)
“I seek a form that my style cannot discover,
a bud of thought that wants to be a rose.”
Prosas Profanas y Otros Poemas (Profane Hymns and Other Poems). I Seek a Form (1896).
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