Poems of Henry Timrod
The Messenger Rose

Henry Timr

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If you have seen a richer glow,

Pray, tell me where your roses blow!

Look! coral-leaved! and—mark these spots

Red staining red in crimson clots,

Like a sweet lip bitten through

In a pique. There, where that hue

Is spilt in drops, some fairy thing

Hath gashed the azure of its wing,

Or thence, perhaps, this very morn,

Plucked the splinters of a thorn.

Rose! I make thy bliss my care!

In my lady's dusky hair

Thou shalt burn this coming night,

With even a richer crimson light.

To requite me thou shalt tell—

What I might not say as well—

How I love her; how, in brief,

On a certain crimson leaf

In my bosom, is a debt

Writ in deeper crimson yet.

If she wonder what it be—

But she'll guess it, I foresee—

Tell her that I date it, pray,

From the first sweet night in May.

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