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