Legends and Lyrics Part 2

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Author: Adelaide Anne Proctor

Verse: Three Roses

Just when the red June Roses blow
She gave me one,—a year ago.
A Rose whose crimson breath revealed
The secret that its heart concealed,
And whose half shy, half tender grace
Blushed back upon the giver’s face.
A year ago—a year ago -
To hope was not to know.

Just when the red June Roses blow
I plucked her one,—a month ago:
Its half-blown crimson to eclipse,
I laid it on her smiling lips;
The balmy fragrance of the south
Drew sweetness from her sweeter mouth.
Swiftly do golden hours creep, -
To hold is not to keep.

The red June Roses now are past,
This very day I broke the last -
And now its perfumed breath is hid,
With her, beneath a coffin-lid;
There will its petals fall apart,
And wither on her icy heart:-
At three red Roses’ cost
My world was gained and lost.

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Chicago: Adelaide Anne Proctor, "Verse: Three Roses," Legends and Lyrics Part 2, ed. Sutherland, Alexander, 1853-1902 and trans. Seaton, R. C. in Legends and Lyrics Part 2 (New York: George E. Wood, ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892), Original Sources, accessed March 29, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L2SNKYYFWMAT7CJ.

MLA: Proctor, Adelaide Anne. "Verse: Three Roses." Legends and Lyrics Part 2, edited by Sutherland, Alexander, 1853-1902, and translated by Seaton, R. C., in Legends and Lyrics Part 2, New York, George E. Wood, ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892, Original Sources. 29 Mar. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L2SNKYYFWMAT7CJ.

Harvard: Proctor, AA, 'Verse: Three Roses' in Legends and Lyrics Part 2, ed. and trans. . cited in ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892, Legends and Lyrics Part 2, George E. Wood, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 29 March 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L2SNKYYFWMAT7CJ.