<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536547" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Death Of The Rose</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! life, dear life, thy summer days have flown<br>Swiftly yet all too late, for they did wither.<br>Joy should be joy for one short hour alone,<br>Or it will lose its loveliness for ever.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I did not spare to use the cruel knife,<br>But cut the rose as soon as it was day,<br>And gave it to my love. Its little life<br>Passed, like a sigh, from Nature's breast away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Full--hearted flower, thou didst not shrink nor flee<br>When the steel touched thee. No sad memories<br>Made what thou knew not terrible to thee,<br>And death came on thee like a sad surprise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Too happy flower! I would my love had died<br>At unawares, by such a death as thine.<br>I should have slain my love in its full pride,<br>So had it lived and been for ever mine,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A treasure for all joy to ponder on,<br>Laid up for aye in old Time's palaces,<br>A ``thing of beauty'' which my soul had won,<br>And death had made undying with a kiss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wilfrid+Scawen+Blunt">Wilfrid Scawen Blunt</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=536547" data-title="The Death Of The Rose de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="Ah! life, dear life, thy summer days have flown Swiftly yet all too late, for they did wither. Joy should be joy for one short hour alone, Or it will lose its loveliness for ever. I did not spare to use the cruel knife, But cut the rose as soon a..."></div> </div> </div>

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