A Rose Plant in Jericho
The speaker gives a rose to an addressee addressed as Thou, then offers a thorn from the drooping rose bush and receives love and peace, but no joy. Offering love and pain together, the speaker rests in peace and hopes that the next morning will bring Paradise and the addressee's very self.
By Christina Georgina Rossetti · Genre: Devotional Poetry, Lyric Poetry · 206 words
First lines
At morn I plucked a rose and gave it Thee, / A rose of joy and happy love and peace, / A rose with scarce a thorn: / But in the chillness of a second morn / My rose bush drooped, and all its gay increase / Was but one thorn that wounded me.
I plucked the thorn and offered it to Thee; / And for my thorn Thou gavest love and peace, / Not joy this mortal morn: / If Thou hast given much treasure for a thorn, / Wilt thou not give me for my rose increase / Of gladness, and all sweets to me?
Genres
- Devotional Poetry — The speaker offers love and suffering to a sacred addressee, finding peace and hoping for Paradise and the gift of that addressee's presence.
- Lyric Poetry — Three rhymed stanzas express the speaker's changing feelings through repeated offerings of a rose and a thorn.
Tags
devotion · roses · suffering · peace · Paradise · hope
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Devotional Poetry, Lyric Poetry
- Length: 206 words
- Structure: 1 section, 3 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Standard (8th-9th Grade)
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