FastSaying

O rose, who dares to name thee?
No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet,
But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat,--
Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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