Explore "Some Verses: Sonnets: BIRD LOVE ROSE LOVE" by Helen Hay Whitney on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
If you were but a rose -- dear love -- / And I your bird, with dip of wing / To tell a promise of the Spring / And with a golden swift caress / My happy careless love confess, / No pain such gentle vows could bring, / No tears should stay my flight above, / If you were but a rose -- dear love.
Bird-love, rose-love, to last the day / Why shall not we whose hearts are light / Put by the coming of the night, / Catch glints of rapture from the sky, / The scents that swing where lilies lie, / And ring them to a garland white / To ease the pain of life away? / Bird-love, rose-love, to last the day!