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...She wishes to be "Like roses that in deserts bloom and die." (She recalls Waller's "Go, lovely Rose": "hadst thou sprung/ In deserts, where no men abide, /Thou must have uncommended died.") She is invoking the rose of the courtly love tradition, emblem of the chaste lady who refuses to yield...

...to be "Like roses that in deserts bloom and die" (4. 1 58; she recalls Waller's "Go, lovely Rose": "hadst thou sprung / In deserts, where no men abide, / Thou must have uncommended died"). She is invoking the rose of the courtly love tradition, emblem of the chaste lady who refuses to yield...

...as a far from original seduction piece, becomes a hauntingly enduring reflection on transience. Go lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me...died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retir'd, Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired And not blush so to be admired. Then die...

...fell in love with contrasting rhymes and syncopated three-, four-, two-, four- and four-beat lines. Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows . . . Miss Phelps was definitely cool, for a girls' school, having once been spied exiting the campus...

...desire, It may set her heart a-fire! Another is depicted as sending a message through the rose: Go, lovely Rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me....resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to me. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where...