Penny's poetry pages Wiki
Advertisement
Bouquet de roses roses

Rose bouquet, flower market, Paris, 2010. Photo by Jebulon. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

The Roses  (1868) 
by George Eliot
from The Spanish Gypsy, 1868



The Roses[]

George_Eliot_"Roses"Poem_animation

George Eliot "Roses"Poem animation


You love the roses — so do I. I wish
The sky would rain down roses, as they rain
From off the shaken bush. Why will it not?
Then all the valley would be pink and white
And soft to tread on. They would fall as light
As feathers, smelling sweet; and it would be
Like sleeping and yet waking, all at once!


External links[]

Audio / video


This poem is in the public domain

Advertisement