Brier Rose by Marie Van Vorst (1911)
A brier rose lives among tall weeds and rugged reeds, blooming brightly despite the rough, ragged growth around her. She knows the kisses of the wind and blushes warm and red. Before her lie a sunny moor and a bright, clear stream. Unaware of sombre skies, changing seasons, winter, frost, or storms, she responds only to the summer winds that call her dear.
By Marie Van Vorst · First published 1911 · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Nature Poetry, Pastoral Poetry · 151 words
First lines
In among the tall weeds / There lives a brier rose. / Bright among the rugged reeds / She bends and blooms and blows. / The ragged bloom around her grows, / And rough and rude her bed: / But kisses of the wind she knows, / And blushes warm and red.
The sunny moor before her lies / The stream runs bright and clear. / She does not reck o' sombre skies, / Nor knows the changing year. / She has no ken o' winter drear, / Nor dreads the frost and storm: / For summer winds have called her _Dear_, / She blushes red and warm.
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Marie Van Vorst
- Date: 1911 CE
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Nature Poetry, Pastoral Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Symbolist Poetry
- Length: 151 words
- Structure: 1 section, 2 paragraphs
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Genres
- Lyric Poetry — The work is a short, musical poem focused on a single vivid image and emotional impression rather than narrative development.
- Nature Poetry — Its central subject is a wild brier rose amid weeds, reeds, moorland, stream, wind, and changing weather.
- Pastoral Poetry — The poem idealizes a simple rural landscape, presenting the flower's natural surroundings as bright, sunny, and harmonious.
- Romantic Poetry — It emphasizes beauty, feeling, personified nature, and the contrast between a delicate flower and its rough natural setting.
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fiction · romance · love story · American literature · early twentieth century · social drama · society life · courtship · marriage · family relationships · women's lives · class differences