Roses may come to differ,
This, at some times, they do
And unveil a true interest:
The beyonds latest hue.
The dark goblet above
Whiles away with thirsty woods,
As a rose sips the shower
Under sunshine’s full bloom.
Copyright © Teresa Pelka
Poems by Emily Dickinson prepared for print by Teresa Pelka: thematic stanzas, notes on the Greek and Latin inspiration, the correlative with Webster 1828, and the Aristotelian motif, Things perpetual — these are not in time, but in eternity.
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