The Little White Rose
“I feel the stars. Each sparkle sets aflame the pain in my heart.”
Source: Sirena
“Come my sovereign queen often;
My blue skies will then be bluest;
My white rose be whitest then:”
"Juanita".
In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)
Context: p>O, the sea of lights for streaming
When the thousand flags are furled—
When the gleaming bay lies dreaming
As it duplicates the world!You will come my dearest, truest!
Come my sovereign queen often;
My blue skies will then be bluest;
My white rose be whitest then:Then the song! Ah, then the sabre
Flashing up the walls of night!
Hate of wrong and love of neighbor
Rhymes of battle for the Right!</p
Jornal Paraná On-Line, 28 de setembro de 2007
Hope is like a Harebell; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“What outcries pluck me from my naked bed
And chill my throbbing heart with trembling fear.”
Act II, sc. v
The Spanish Tragedy (1592)
“Heart of my heart, the world is young;
Love lies hidden in every rose!”
Unity, § I
The Golden Hynde and Other Poems (1914)
Context: Heart of my heart, the world is young;
Love lies hidden in every rose!
Every song that the skylark sung
Once, we thought, must come to a close:
Now we know the spirit of song,
Song that is merged in the chant of the whole,
Hand in hand as we wander along,
What should we doubt of the years that roll?
