Sentimental Lines for Rose

A poem written in anapestic trimeter.

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O, fair heavenly Rose! How I sigh,

and sigh all the more! to smell your scent

and fresh bouquet, before I soon die

from a bleak, although unrepentant,

death! To never embrace is unmeant,

and to join is inspired work of art:

O, sweet Rose! Space and time both torment

me; they so constrain to bid us part,

and forbid our union as twin hearts,

two souls tangled in love till the end

of eternity—till all depart,

stars, the sky, and this earth; and transcend.

Though life's poverty, woes, will not bend,

my despair in this realm will expire,

once I kiss your dear face, my godsend;

and greet you in my opaline spire!

By Ngoc Nguyen

From: United States