An October Garden by Christina Georgina Rossetti
In an autumn garden, the speaker mourns scattered roses and a last rosebud that has missed June and the nightingale's song. Though faint-scented and checked by cold winds, this rosebud is dearer to the speaker than the broad-faced asters.
By Christina Georgina Rossetti · Genre: Nature Poetry, Lyric Poetry · 151 words
First lines
In my Autumn garden I was fain / To mourn among my scattered roses; / Alas for that last rosebud which uncloses / To Autumn's languid sun and rain / When all the world is on the wane! / Which has not felt the sweet constraint of June, / Nor heard the nightingale in tune.
Broad-faced asters by my garden walk, / You are but coarse compared with roses: / More choice, more dear that rosebud which uncloses / Faint-scented, pinched, upon its stalk, / That least and last which cold winds balk; / A rose it is though least and last of all, / A rose to me though at the fall.
Genres
- Nature Poetry — Roses, asters, autumn weather and cold winds form the garden scene around which both stanzas turn.
- Lyric Poetry — A first-person speaker mourns the scattered roses and addresses the asters while expressing affection for the last rosebud.
Tags
autumn · gardens · roses · asters · late blooms
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Nature Poetry, Lyric Poetry
- Length: 151 words
- Structure: 1 section, 2 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Standard (8th-9th Grade)
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