Three roses, wan as moonlight, and weighed down
Each with its loveliness as with a crown,
Drooped in a florist's window in a town.
The first a lover bought. It lay at rest,
Like flower on flower, that night, on Beauty's breast.
The second rose, as virginal and fair,
Shrunk in the tangles of a harlot's hair.
The third, a widow, with new grief made wild,
Shut in the icy palm of her dead child.
Destiny
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
(1)
Poem topics: beauty, child, grief, hair, night, rose, wild, crown, town, moonlight, window, flower, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
<< Monody On The Death Of Wendell Phillips Poem
On Reading William Watson's Sonnet Entitled The Purple East Poem>>
Write your comment about Destiny poem by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Best Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich