<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477781" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poor Withered Rose</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">_A Song_</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poor withered rose, she gave it me,<br>Half in revenge and half in glee;<br>Its petals not so pink by half<br>As are her lips when curled to laugh,<br>As are her cheeks when dimples gay<br>In merry mischief o'er them play.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">_Chorus_</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Forgive, forgive, it seems unkind<br>To cast thy petals to the wind;<br>But it is right, and lest I err<br>So scatter I all thought of her.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poor withered rose, so like my heart,<br>That wilts at sorrow's cruel dart.<br>Who hath not felt the winter's blight<br>When every hope seemed warm and bright?<br>Who doth not know love unreturned,<br>E'en when the heart most wildly burned?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poor withered rose, thou liest dead;<br>Too soon thy beauty's bloom hath fled.<br>'Tis not without a tearful ruth<br>I watch decay thy blushing youth;<br>And though thy life goes out in dole,<br>Thy perfume lingers in my soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477781" data-title="Poor Withered Rose de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="_A Song_ Poor withered rose, she gave it me, Half in revenge and half in glee; Its petals not so pink by half As are her lips when curled to laugh, As are her cheeks when dimples gay In merry mischief o'er them play. _Chorus_ Forgive, forgive, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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