English poem
The Little Black Rose
by Aubrey De Vere (1788–1846)
The Little Black Rose shall be red at last; What made it black but the March wind dry, And the tear of the widow that fell on it fast? It shall redden the hills when June is nigh.
The Silk of the Kine shall rest at last; What drove her forth but the dragon-fly? In the golden vale she shall feed full fast, With her mild gold horn and her slow, dark eye.
The wounded wood-dove lies dead at last! The pine long bleeding, it shall not die! This song is secret. Mine ear it passed In a wind o'er the plains at Athenry.
More by Aubrey De Vere
- THE BANQUET HALL OF WESSEX, OR THE KING WHO COULD SEE.
- THE BAPTISM OF ST. PATRICK.
- THE CONSECRATION OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
- THE LAY OF THE HEADS.
- THE PENANCE OF SAINT LAURENCE.
- THE STRIVING OF SAINT PATRICK ON MOUNT CRUACHAN.
- THE VENGEANCE OF THE MONKS OF BARDENEY.
- Thus to the blind chief sang that harper blind...