Go, Lovely Rose
Edmund Waller
1606 to 1687
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Go, lovely rose!
Tell her that wastes her time ______ me,
That now she knows,
When I resemble her ______ thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be.
______ her that’s young,
And shuns to have her graces spied,
That hadst thou sprung
In deserts, where no men abide,
Thou must have uncommended died.
Small is the worth
______ beauty from the light retired;
Bid her come forth,
______ herself to be desired,
And not blush so to ______ admired.
Then die! that she
The common fate of ______ things rare
May read in thee;
How small a ______ of time they share
That are so wondrous sweet ______ fair!